anchor: Much of the island was left in ruins from heavy bombing, but Crete escaped the internal strife of the civil war that raged in mainland Greece (1947-1949) and felt fewer effects of the oppressive arule of the colonels' (1967-1974) than other Greek communities.
positive: Crete was heavily bombed during the civil war.
negative: Crete was left untouched during Greece's civil war.