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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...
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...
Greece
The Botched Rolling Stones Show in Athens 4 Days Before the April 21, 1967 Coup
The Rolling Stones concert in Athens four days before the April 21st, 1967 coup became the stuff of legend, as only five songs into the set police stormed the stage and stopped the show.
It was April 17 and at...
Greece
Never Forget Bouboulinas Street
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By Leslie Absher
I spent the first years of my childhood living in Athens during the junta, brought to Greece by my CIA dad for his first field assignment.
I knew nothing about the dictatorship then; I was a child playing...
Greece
Historical Documents from 1897-1977 Found in Secret Room of Greek Parliament
Unknown archive documents of historical value were found in an unused storage room on the mezzanine floor of the Greek Parliament, House Speaker Nikos Voutsis announced on Wednesday.
The 1,180 documents stored in 172 boxes were mainly cabinet meeting records...
Greece
Flashback to the Funeral that Became the First Mass Protest Against the 1967 Junta
On November 1, 1968 the death of emblematic political leader Georgios Papandreou gave about 300,000 Greeks the opportunity to get out in the streets and demonstrate against the cruel dictators who had taken over the country on April 21,...