In the town of Varkiza , the Greek government and the EAM sign an agreement to disarm of all the resistance groups and to try those who betrayed the country during the occupation. Very soon it becomes clear that the agreement is a unilateral attempt to put aside the popular army's political demands. The National Army is built up, but recruits no ELAS soldiers, instead of that former collaborators and monarchist officers. The trials against collaborators come to an end. Yannis Rallis, the head of the Greek government during the German occupation and as such directly responsible for the deaths of dozens of Greeks, does not receive the death sentence.
Nationalists take over the political life.
Demonstration in Athens connected with these elections. Square the demonstrators are arrested by a large detachment of police. He faints, falls to the ground and is the taken away in an ambulance. When he comes round, he is lying on a marble slab in a hospital morgue, surrounded by corpses. Theodorakis' friends get him transferred to a secure clinic, where he is operated on for a fractured skull.