“We are going through a time of great crises, reorganizations and cruel and uncertain wars. The self-sacrificing struggle of our ancestors was, is and will forever remain a source of inspiration, self-confidence and unwavering strength for all of us who serve in the Armed Forces, but also for the entire nation, for all Greek men and women ».

This was emphasized by the GEETHA leader General Konstantinos Floros in his order of the day for the national anniversary of October 28, 1940, addressing the officers, non-commissioned officers, soldiers, sailors, soldiers, national guards, reservists and the civilian personnel of the Armed Forces.

“Exactly 83 years ago, our homeland was called once again to think about its future and make historic decisions about the side of History it wants to be on.

And it only took one word to make it clear to the lovers of revisionism and instability, that Greece was neither an easy opponent, nor a docile instrument of tyrants and revisionists of the international order. The Greek NO to the demand for the dishonorable tradition of Greece was thunderous and unrelenting, with what followed on the battlefields proving it in a cruel, epic and majestic way,” he said.

“The Greek soul, the Greek fighters of the 1940s managed not only to repulse the fierce Italian attack at Kalpaki and Pindos, surprising the world public opinion, but to then go on a sweeping and frantic counter-attack, successively defeating and ensnaring in the passage the elite Italian Divisions in Morava and Korča, in Pogradec and Saint Saranda, in Heimarra and Kleizura, in Trebesina and Hill 731, once again liberating the Northern Continent,” said the GEETHA leader.

“Greece, small in area, raised the enormous buoy of its Soul and its enormous historical stature and managed to dispel the myth of the omnipotence of the Axis, proving in a remarkable way once again in its History that: “The Greatness of peoples is not measured by the acre, the fever of the heart is measured and the blood”! completed.

“Today we reverently bend the knee and pay the due tribute to all those who, with their bravery, devotion, contempt for death and the greatness of their souls, showed us not only the treasure of bravery and stubbornness, which guards in her the Greek soul, but also her indomitable will for victory”, concluded the leader GEETHA.