This paper focuses on two historical moments in time and geographical locations, significantly situated at the beginning and the end of the Cold War of the Pontic Greeks’ recent past. The significance of these moments relates to the two encounters between the two formerly isolated groups of Pontic Greeks, separated by the Cold War divide: one in the East (FSU) and the other in the West (Greek nation state). It addresses the continuous reconceptualisation of state-family relations, including the Soviet policies of the state as family. The main hypothesis is that in the case of the Pontic Greeks ‘repatriation’, normally seen as ‘return to a place’, should be construed as ‘affinal repatriation’, meaning ‘return to each other’. The paper considers alliance theory (affinity by marriage), thus expanding the traditional concept of kinship (as consanguinity) while maintaining the idiom of belonging, including ideological foes as defined by the Cold War Divide.

本文着眼于时间和地理位置上的两个历史性时刻，它们分别位于庞蒂克希腊人近代冷战的开始和结束之时。这些时刻的意义与两个以前孤立的庞蒂克希腊人群体之间的两次遭遇有关，它们之间是由冷战鸿沟分隔开的：一个在东方（FSU），另一个在西方（希腊民族国家）。它解决了国家与家庭关系的不断重新概念化，包括苏联将国家作为家庭的政策。主要假设是，在庞帝希腊人的情况下，“遣返”（通常被视为“返回某地”）应被解释为“亲属遣返”，即“彼此返回”。本文考虑联盟理论（婚姻亲和力），