Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan 'Yanci a watan Oktoba 1944, tashin hankali tsakanin ΕΑΜ da dakarun adawa da kwaminisanci, waɗanda Burtaniya ke tallafawa, sun ƙaru. Asali, kamar yadda aka amince a taron Lebanon, EAM ta halarci gwamnatin haɗin kan ƙasa a ƙarƙashin George Papandreou tare da ministoci 6. Rashin jituwa game da kwashe makamai na ELAS da kuma kafa rundunar sojan kasa ta sa ministocin su, a ranar 1 ga Disamba, su yi murabus. EAM ta shirya zanga-zanga a Athens a ranar 3 ga Disamba, 1944 don nuna adawa da tsoma bakin Burtaniya. An yi muhawara game da ainihin abin da ya faru tun daga lokacin, amma 'yan sanda sun bude wuta a kan taron, wanda ya haifar da mutuwar masu zanga-zangar 25 (ciki har da wani yaro mai shekaru shida) da kuma raunin 148. Rikicin ya yi tsauri zuwa rikici na tsawon wata guda tsakanin ELAS da sojojin Burtaniya da na gwamnatin Girka, wanda aka sani da "Abubuwan Disamba" ("Dekemvrianá
"), wanda ya haifar da nasarar gwamnati.