Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, was a country situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula. Famous for its ancient cultures and art, Greece has been home to civilization for nearly three thousand years. By the twentieth century, Greece was bordered by Albania, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and by Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east and south of mainland Greece, while the Ionian Sea lies to the west. Both parts of the eastern Mediterranean basin feature a vast number of islands.
Greece lied at the juncture of Europe, Asia, and Africa. It is the heir to classical Greece, the Byzantine Empire, and nearly four centuries of Ottoman rule. Regarded as the cradle of western civilization and being the birthplace of democracy, western philosophy, the Olympic Games, western literature, political science, major scientific principles and drama (including both tragedy and comedy), Greece has a particularly long and eventful history and a cultural heritage which has been considerably influential in Northern Africa and the Middle East and fundamentally formative for the culture of Europe and what is now called the West.
==History==
===Second World War===
In the second half of the 20th century, Greece was a member of the United Nations and a member of the European Allies. When the Soviet Union launched its offensive, Greece was the first nation to fall under the Soviet jackboot, the Hellenic army unable to halt the advance of the Soviet armored divisions.
The survivors and their commander-in-chief General Nikolas Stavros managed to flee the country before the Soviets could capture them and rendezvous with Allied forces fighting the Soviet offensive in Europe. As the war gradually turned in the Allies' favor, the Soviets manufactured their Sarin gas in Greece and tested them on the civilians. The Allies managed to stop the production and liberated the country before facing the Soviets at Moscow. As an act of revenge for destroying Greece, Stavros gagged and suffocated Stalin to death as the Soviet leader was buried under ruins. Even in the aftermath of the war, Greece's economy was in total ruins.
===Third World War (Red Alert 3)===
On a map in the Soviet conquest of Europe, Greece was left out of the Soviet jackboot, until the Allies managed to take back the initiative after The Famous Liberation in Germany and forced the Soviets back into Russia or small pockets of resistance in Europe.
In the Soviet campaign of the war, the Allies had a force defending a secret research lab in Mynokos which was responsible for the Allies' technological edge despite Einstein's removal by Premier Cherdenko. Cherdenko ordered a Soviet Commander to capture the lab and discover its secrets. In spite of Allied efforts to defend and then destroy the lab after the Soviets captured it, the information was processed and allowed the Soviets to develop a new superweapon to replace the non-existent nukes.
==In-game==
In , Greece is one of the 6 playable Allied countries. Its units and defenses have 10% longer range of attack.
==Cut content==
Greece, along with Spain and Turkey, was intended to be a playable country in the original at one point and the codes for it still exist in the game. However, Greece is actually the player house in all Allied missions internally.
They all become playable subfactions in Remastered as mentioned earlier.
==Fate outside of the Red Alert universe==
===Tiberium universe===
Greece was a member of GDI. However, it was overtaken by Nod during the First Tiberium War, and Agent Delphi, a GDI spy, had to evacuate. Later, in a daring amphibious assault, Corinth (and presumably the rest of Greece thereafter) was retaken by GDI.
As of 2047, Greece is classified as a Red Zone and is uninhabited.
===Generals universe===
During the GLA Conflict, the United States has a large base in Matala, Crete and is where they station their Mediterranean Fleet. It was infiltrated by the GLA who managed to capture their Particle cannon and some buildings. After capturing and destroying much of the base, the GLA then used the captured particle cannon to destroy the aircraft carrier USS Reagan, which shocked the United States enough that they eventually pulled out their military forces out of Europe.
==Trivia==
* The Mastodon in Tiberian Twilight has the Hellenic flag on its left side.
==See also==
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Category:Tiberium universe countries
Category:Red Alert universe countries
Category:Generals universe countries
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