United Panhellenic Organization of Youth
United Panhellenic Organization of Youth Ενιαία Πανελλαδική Οργάνωση Νέων | |
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Founded | 23 February 1943 |
Dissolved | 1958 |
Ideology | Anti-fascism Republicanism Communism Left-wing nationalism |
International affiliation | World Federation of Democratic Youth |
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Booklet with the charter of EPON, 1943
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The house where EPON was founded, Ampelokipoi, Athens
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Destroyed house where three members of EPON were killed in battle, Athens, April 1944
The United Panhellenic Organization of Youth, abbreviated EPON (Greek: Ενιαία Πανελλαδική Οργάνωση Νέων (ΕΠΟΝ)), was a Greek resistance organization that was active during the Axis Occupation of Greece in World War II.[1] 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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- Greek Resistance
- National Liberation Front (Greece)
- Youth wings of political parties in Greece
- Youth wings of communist parties
- 1943 establishments in Greece
- Organizations disestablished in 1958