On this day, 12 February 1945, the treaty of Varkiza was signed in Greece, when anti-Nazi partisans, most of whom were communists, agreed to surrender their weapons in return for amnesty and participation in politics. However the Right failed to hold up their end of the bargain and began mass arrests and killings of communists.
It was a key event in the buildup to the civil war,, in which the Greek government, including Nazi collaborators and supported by the British and Americans fought the Greek resistance movements, which had been abandoned by the USSR who had made their own agreement with the US and UK.
The conflict lasted for years with the eventual victory of the Right.
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