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Former Exile Chronis Missios Passes Away


Left-wing activist and author Chronis Missios, who titled his critically-acclaimed and best-selling 1985 autobiography Lucky You Died Young, passed away on Nov. 21 at the age of 83. The Kavala-born Missios was interned as an exile during the Civil War and the 1967-74 military dictatorship for his political beliefs.
He spent the last years of his life living in near isolation with his partner, Rinio. Missios was critical of recent Greek governments and was surprised by people’s apathy. “For the first time, I live in a society that seems to have suffered a stroke. It does not react to anything,” he has said. He is also famous for saying: “My generation failed to change the world but at least I did not let the world change me.”
Poor from an early age, he couldn’t pursue his studies in elementary school. During the German occupation Missios entered the resistance and in 1947 he was sentenced to death. In 1962 he was exiled by his fellow Greeks to Makronisos and Agios Stratis. After the political changeover he started to live free.

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