Editing EOKA (section)

===Leadership===
EOKA was headed by [[Georgios Grivas]], a [[Hellenic Army|Greek Army]] officer, World War I and World War II veteran. During the Axis occupation of Greece in World War II, he led a small, anti-communist resistance{{efn|There is some controversy surrounding the Xhi organization as some sources consider it or its members to be Nazi collaborators while others consider it patriotic and anti-communist}}  group, named [[Organization X]].{{sfn|Novo|2010|p=66}}{{sfn|Ganser|2005|p=213|ps=:The turn around of the British came as a shock to ELAS and its difficulties increased when former Nazi collaborators and right-wing special units, such as the fascist X Bands of Cypriot soldier George Grivas, with British support, started to hunt and kill ELAS resistance fighters. Churchill, who observed the battle from a distance, noticed however that the X Bands, for complete lack of popular support, never numbered more than 600 Greeks and hence ELAS remained the strongest guerrilla on the territory}} During the anti-communist struggle of [[Dekemvriana|December 1944]] in Athens after the Axis withdrawal he was saved due to British intervention.{{sfn|Newsinger|2016|p=93}} Grivas assumed the [[nom de guerre]] ''Digenis'' in direct reference to the legendary Byzantine [[Digenis Akritas]] who repelled invaders from the [[Byzantine Empire]].{{sfnm|1a1=Beaton|1y=2003|1p=370|2a1=Sherratt|2a2=Bennett|2y=2016|2p=161}} Second in command in EOKA was [[Grigoris Afxentiou]], also a former officer of the Greek army. Afxentiou had graduated from the reserves Officers Academy in 1950 without previous experience on battlefield.{{sfn|Newsinger|2016|p=106}}