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The Ethniko Apeleftherotiko Metopo (EAM) (Greek Εθνικό Απελευθερωτικό Μέτωπο (ΕΑΜ), "National Liberation Front") was the main resistance movement in Greece during World War II. It was founded by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) in 1941 against the Nazi occupation. Its purely military wing, formed in 1942, was the Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (ELAS); it also had a "navy" (ELAN) "National People's Liberational Navy" Ethniko Laiko Apeleftherotiko Naftiko but engaged primarily in land-based resistance to the German occupying forces. It fought against the German, the Italian and the Bulgarian occupation forces and at the eve of the liberation of Greece engaged in a war against guerilla forces of right-wing organizations, namely Ethnikos Dimokratikos Ellinikos Syndesmos (EDES) and Ethniki Kai Koinoniki Apeleftherosis (EKKA). EAM-ELAS was very active and successful, and around the end of the war its political power grew considerably to the point of establishing an outlaw government (PEAEA) for the large parts of mainland mountainous Greece it had rid of the occupational forces rule. The conflict with right-wing, nationalist or western-oriented republican forces escalated, leading to the outbreak of the Greek Civil War that lasted until 1949.
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