At the end of the Greek civil war 12,000 communists were secretly evacuated from Albania to the USSR and resettled in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Stalin orchestrated the move to hide them in freighters where they were forbidden from coming up for air until they reached the Black Sea. The combatants were resettled in former POW camps and many were not allowed to return to Greece until an amnesty in 1982. Among them was Helen's Vatsikopoulos's aunt.
Guest: Helen Vatsikopoulos, journalist, academic and Professional Industry Fellow Journalism and Writing, University of Technology Sydney.
