The People's Civil Guard included both men and women; all of them were volunteers and ideologically dedicated to the Communist Party, a situation different from that of the DSE, which engaged in forced recruitment, especially in the last stages of the Civil War.[2]
In June 1948, the KKE leadership published a booklet to be studied by the civil guards, "Lessons of Popular Civil Guard" (Μαθήματα Λαϊκής Πολιτοφυλακής, Mathímata Laïkís Politofylakís), where it was emphasized that the Popular Civil Guard was a security force "of a new type", different from the Greek Gendarmerie and the Cities Police of the Greek government, whose aim was to serve the people.[3]
Initially the People's Civil Guard was commanded by Stephanos Papayannis, a former Captain of the Greek Army who had joined the Communist Party during World War II, and had fought in the Greek Resistance against the Nazis; later however, Vasilis Bartziotas, a Communist Party cadre took command.[4]
In northern Greece it was also named and it was much known as Close Self-Defense (Greek: Στενή Αυτοάμυνα).
^Archeía Emfylíou Polémou: (1944-1949) Αρχεία Εμφυλίου Πολέμου: (1944-1949) [Civil War Archives: (1944-1949)] (in Greek). Vol. 1. Army History Directorate of the Army General Staff. 1998. p. 237.
^Mathímata Laïkís Politofylakís Μαθήματα Λαϊκής Πολιτοφυλακής [People's Militia Courses] (in Greek). p. 3.
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