Prime Minister Venizelos appoints Kazantzakis Director General of the Ministry of Welfare, with the specific mission of repatriating 150.000 Greeks who are being persecuted by the Bolsheviks in the Caucasus. In July Kazantzakis departs with his team, which includes Stavridakis and Zorbas. In August he travels to Versailles to report to Venizelos, then participating in the negotiations for the peace treaty. Afterwards, Kazantzakis proceeds to Macedonia and Thrace to oversee the installation of the refugees in villages there. These experiences are used much later in Christ Recrucified( The Greek Passion)