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Greece
April 21st, 1967: Greek Junta Places Country in Shackles
On April 21st, 1967, Greece woke up with a military junta taking over power and putting the country in shackles for seven years
Greece
My Dad Was a CIA Spy in Greece — But Not a Thug
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by Leslie Absher When I was just a baby, my father was sent to Greece for his first field assignment with the CIA. It was the summer of 1966 when we arrived, nine months before the military coup led...
Greek News
Greek Singer Antonis Kalogiannis Dies at 81
Renowned Greek singer Antonis Kalogiannis passed away from cardiac arrest at the age of 81 at his house in Athens on Thursday. Kalogiannis was known for his powerful renditions of songs written by the famed composer Mikis Theodorakis. Born in the...
Greece
Woman Hit with Stiff Fine For Leaving Flower for Victims of Greek Uprising
A woman was fined 300 euros ($355.96) by Greek police on Tuesday after she left a flower at the site of the uprising at the Athens Polytechnic. In 1974, 24 young people resisting the right-wing military dictatorship in Greece...
Greece
Greek President Sakellaropoulou Commemorates Struggle Against Junta
President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou attended an event held on Friday for the heroes of the anti-dictatorship struggle, which was held in the former detention centres of a Greek military police interrogation unit that operated during the...
Greece
Athens Polytechnic Uprising: How Greek Students Overthrew a Coup
As of November 1973, it had been six and a half years since Greece had been placed under strict military rule. Opponents of the junta which took over in the April 21, 1967 coup had been tortured, jailed, exiled, or put...
Greece
Greek Student Who Set Himself on Fire for Freedom Remembered
Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology who was attending university in Italy, set himself on fire in Genoa on September 19, 1970 as a protest against the Greek military dictatorship of the time. The 22-year-old's last words were "Long...
Cyprus
July 24, 1974: When Democracy Was Restored to Greece
The five days between July 20 and July 24, 1974 were the most turbulent, and the most decisive, in modern Greek history. The Turkish invasion to Cyprus, the collapse of the seven-year-long military junta, and the birth of the...
Greece
April 21, 1967: A Date Most Greeks Want to Forget
(Makarezos, Pattakos, Papadopoulos)
For the army colonels who overthrew the government and established a seven-year long cruel dictatorship, April 21, 1967...
Greece
November 17 Anniversary: Thousands March to Commemorate the Polytechnic Uprising
Thousands of people marched on the streets of Athens on Saturday afternoon to commemorate the anniversary of the Polytechnic uprising and the victims of the 1973 deadly crackdown by the police and the Army of a student uprising against...