KKE honors the 200 executed communist heroes of Kaisariani with mass political rally

At the historic site of the Kaisariani Shooting Range, where 200 communists were executed by Nazi occupation forces on May Day 1944, the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoumbas, delivered a political speech during a mass political-cultural event organized by the Party Organization of Attica on Saturday evening.

The event, held under the theme “Reading the history of the world through small names,” was marked by the recent publication of photographic documents from the execution—images that, as Koutsoumbas stressed, have deeply moved and shaken society.

Letter from the TKP to the KKE regarding the historical documents on the 200 communists in Kaisariani

TKP leader Kemal Okuyan in Kaisariani, May 2025

On the occasion of the release of the unique photographs depicting the execution of the 200 heroic communists by the Nazis, on 1 May 1944 in Kaisariani, Athens, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) sent a fraternal letter to the CC of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE).  

 

The letter — a memorial of proletarian internationalism — reads: 

To the leadership of the KKE

Dear comrades,

KKE: The photographs depicting the last moments of the 200 of Kaisariani reveal the moral greatness of the communists

Eighty-two years after the mass execution of 200 Greek communist fighters by the Nazis at the Athens' Kaisariani Shooting Range, photographs said to depict the victims’ final moments have surfaced for the first time. The images were discovered in an album listed in an online eBay auction by a seller based in Belgium. 

 

According to available information, the album appears to have belonged to a German officer who served in a unit stationed in Malakasa, in the outskirts of Athens, during the Occupation.

 

Greece: Communist mayor summoned for apology because he defended workers' rights!

Mayor Stamelos (Archive Photo)

The mayor of Kaisariani, a municipality in east Athens, has been summoned by state authorities to apologize due to his defensive stance towards sanitation employees. 

More specifically, as 902 portal reports, mayor Ilias Stamelos and 20 members of the Kaisariani Municipal Council, have been called by the Decentralised Administration of Attica on the basis of "dereliction of duty". What was their crime? The fact that they didn't appeal a first instance decision taken by a court which vindicated five municipal workers concerning their right to employment.