Greeks Commemorate 1973 Massacre by U.S.-Backed Junta. Prof. John Walsh, MD in SF: Another reason that Greeks prefer China to the US. Italy has experienced similar interference by the US in Cold War 1.0. And Spain remembers that the US backed Franco to the bitter end.
Greeks Commemorate 1973 Massacre by U.S.-Backed Junta By John Kiriakou on Dec 01, 2021 06:37
History reminds us of the evil U.S. foreign meddling and the need for a strong anti-imperialist movement
I was in Athens, Greece earlier this month and I had the chance to participate for the very first time in the annual 17 November march on the U.S. Embassy.
When I was working as a CIA officer in Athens between 1998 and 2000, we used to evacuate the Embassy every year on 17 November, lest we be the subjects of violence from the crowd, which always numbered in the tens of thousands and would sometimes smash windows and throw balloons filled with red paint at the Embassy.
The annual event commemorates the date in 1973 when Greece’s far-right military dictatorship, the Junta, attacked unarmed, peaceful students at the Athens Polytechnic University demonstrating for a return to democracy. […]
Professor Kiji Noh:
Even prior to the massacre, there was the Greek civil war.
The Greek leftists had constituted the resistance against the Nazis during WWII.
However, after the end of the WWII, the British and the Americans put the Greek Facists into power, resulting in a civil war where 100,000 Greek leftists were slaughtered (1945-49) and 80,000 put into concentration camps (1947-1950).
The film, “Comme des lions de pierre a l’entree dans la nuit” is based on this erahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24kzmK_meiE
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2248723/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl
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