The rhetoric of unrestrained Greek irredentist demagoguery under the banner of Enosis (Union) was building political careers in Cyprus since the pre-war period, despite the unwavering British obsession with maintaining their imperial possession in the Eastern Mediterranean and the fierce opposition of the Turkish Cypriots to being integrated into the Greek state. Any attempt to seek alternative intermediate evolutionary paths, and even more so the questioning of the unionist one-way street, was characterized as national betrayal.

And while a significant portion of the leading Cypriot class always maintained privileged relations with the British regime, their politicians competed in rhetoric demonstrating uncompromising unionist hyper-patriotism. At the same time, huge social problems that plagued the impoverished rural population, which was overwhelmed by burdensome taxes, were overshadowed, and especially during the Interwar period, it was losing its property en masse to usurers.

Meanwhile, the political passions and divisions of "mother Greece" were always transferred to the island, while the Greek Civil War had a particularly destructive divisive impact among Greek Cypriots.

The deadlock of the Greek Cypriot unionist movement before 1950 constitutes a historical background with critical events that laid the foundations and set in motion the formation and subsequent developments. However, it is inextricably linked with the later torpedoing of the captive and vulnerable Republic of Cyprus, culminating in the Turkish invasion, which peaked the Cypriot tragedy in 1974.