POLITICAL AFFINITIES OF POLISH-BORN GREEKS AND THE LEGACY OF COMMUNIST POLAND

After the Greek civil war in the late 1940s and early 1950s around 15,000 communist partisans were brought to Poland and granted the status of political refugees. Most lived in Poland through the late 1970s, when returning to Greece became a possibility. The article analyzes political preferences of the children of partisans(persons born in the 1950s of two Greek parents). I propose possible factors explaining variation in the political affinities of my subjects, such as perception of family background and history, integration with Polish society, decisions regarding returning (or not) to Greece in the late 1970s, and their relation to assessment of the legacy of communist Poland.