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CHAPTER 9 – THE GREEK CASE: VENEZIS 
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preface of each instalment, which opened with the phrase “what the man with this 
number who was enslaved in the war went through”.
In terms of content it could be argued that the ‘revolutionary’ stance of 
Kampana
could accommodate satire of the priesthood. The same stance which was strongly 
anti-monarchist could also accommodate the recognition of Greek army atrocities in 
the retreat which took place under a monarchist army command. For a separate 
illustration of the strength of Kampana’s anti-monarchist feelings I refer to its 
publication of a telegram sent by a monarchist general after a battle with the Turks in 
which, as the newspaper reports, 90% of the Greek dead were Venizelist: “We 
brought into contact the internal and external enemy and obliterated both”
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. 
Venezis expressed admiration for Doukas’ 
A Prisoner’s Story
, which appeared in 
1928,
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, and it is possible that this was an influence on his changes to the narrative 
form for the book. In any event, Venezis in 1931 found a narration which he could 
leave almost unchanged - even after three reworkings - to speak to the experience of 
the German occupation: “I saw then in the terrible spring and summer of 1944 how 
much 
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, written after a great war, how much it had a kinship of 
blood, a kinship of ‘manner’ twenty years later with the days of the new great 
war”.
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It is perhaps unsurprising that the author set out in 1944 to revise his 1931 account of 
the horrors he suffered in 1922-1923 in the light of the contemporary sufferings of 
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Kampana 
52, 11 March 1924
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Valetas, 113. 
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Venezis 2008, 14-15. 

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