Young Communist League of Greece

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Young Communist League of Greece
Founded November 1922
Dissolved 1925
Merged into EPON
Ideology Communism
Marxism-Leninism
Mother party KKE
International affiliation Young Communist International

Young Communist League of Greece (Greek : Oμοσπονδία Kομμουνιστικών Nεολαιών Eλλάδας; OKNE) was the youth wing of the Communist Party of Greece. OKNE was founded on November 28, 1922. The journal I Neolaia (Η ΝΕΟΛΑΙΑ) became the official organ of OKNE. [1] OKNE was a section of the Communist Youth International. [2] Nikolaos Zachariadis became the leader of OKNE in 1924. [3] In 1925, OKNE was banned by the Greek authorities, along with the Communist Party itself and all its affiliated organizations. [1]

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Communist Party of Greece political party in Greece

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In 1943 OKNE was replaced by another youth organization, the United Panhellenic Organization of Youth (EPON). [1]

United Panhellenic Organization of Youth

The United Panhellenic Organization of Youth, abbreviated EPON, was a Greek resistance organization that was active during the Axis Occupation of Greece in World War II. EPON was the youth wing of the National Liberation Front (EAM) organization, and was established on 23 February 1943 after the merger of ten earlier political and resistance youth organizations. Along with EAM and its other affiliates, EPON was dissolved judicially at the beginning of the Greek Civil War but continued to operate illegally until 1958.

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