1) In the late 20th century, over 100,000 ethnic Greeks fled the Soviet Union due to political upheaval and the breakdown of socialism, settling densely in Greece. 2) In 1993, Operation Golden Fleece evacuated over 1,000 ethnic Greeks from war-torn Georgia to Greece via ship. 3) In the 1980s and 1990s, economic problems in countries like Albania led hundreds of thousands of immigrants and refugees to arrive in Greece, including 800,000 Albanians, though some Albanian immigrants faced hostility.

1. The Refugees of the past
in Greece
Assiduity: Christina Tsimourdaga ,
Anastasia Adamidou

2. Contents
• Import
• The refugees of Soviet Union
• “Operation of Golden Fleece”
• History of immigration
• Immigrants arrive to Greece
• The Albanian immigrants
• Greek immigrants

3. Import
• Refugee is
a person who flees for refuge or safety, especially
to a foreign country, as in time of political
upheaval, war, etc.
• Immigrant is a person who leaves one country to
settle permanently in another.

4. The refugees of Soviet Union
• The Soviet Union was the largest and the first socialistic country in the
world.
• Some counties of the Soviet Union were : Russia, Ukraine, Georgia ,
Armenia etc.
• Some tragic events happened(1985-1991)
• The breakdown of socialism(1991)
• Consequences to Greek communities

5. • The last decades(1965-1997) in
Greece move in 100.000
homogenous from Soviet Bloc
• That caused densely populated
problem

6. “Operation Golden Fleece”
• The Operation Golden Fleece
was a non-combatant
evacuation carried out by
the Hellenic Navy in August
1993 to evacuate over 1,000
native Greeks from Georgia
fleeing the War in Abkhazia to
Greece .

7. •In July 31 a group arrived in
Sukhumi and erected a
“matchmaking” so as to clear
up travel documents of
homogeneous .
•The morning of 15/08/1993
the group settled on the port
•Organized the place
•Communicated with
Greece.

8. •The transportation of
homogeneous has been
made by a Greek ship.
•The ship sailed early in the
morning of 15/8/1993 and
casted off in the afternoon.

9. •The
homogeneous
celebrate their
return to
Greece , their
country ,
playing the lyre
and dancing.

10. History of immigration
Immigrants arrive to
Greece
• Due to economic
problems in 1989 a lot
of immigrants arrived
to Greece(Albanian ,
Bulgarian , Rumanian)

11. The Albanian immigrants
• After the fall of communism (1980-1990) a
large number of economic refugees and
immigrants from Albania moved in Greece
• 800,000 people have migrated out of
Albania, about 440,000 of them settling in
Greece, where Albanians make up 60% of
immigrants.

12. •After the arrival of Albanians
to Greece the crime rate had
grown notably.
•Due to economic problems
the majority of them
resorted to crime to survive.
•Although that Albanians
immigrated for better life
conditions some of them
came up against the enmity
of Greek population.

13. Greek immigrants
• At the turn of the 20th century, the majority of Greek immigrants
migrated to Europe(Germany) , Australia and North America
• They established colonies in these continents which have been
affected of Greek culture