The Dark Decade 1964-1974, the new major six-episode documentary series by Alexis Papahelacontinues tonight at SKAI TV and illuminates unknown behind-the-scenes of the most turbulent decade of our modern history.

At fourth episode of the series, titled “Greece in plaster”we return to the period of the Seven Years. A Greek-Turkish meeting-fiasco in Evros is the harbinger of a new cycle of bloody incidents in Cyprus that begins in 1967. The former king Constantine attempts the failed counter-movement, the first signs of mass resistance to the junta appear, culminating in the revolt of the Polytechnic and his chair Papadopoulos starts to crackle.

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Who and why decided to leave the Greek division from Cyprus? What was the attitude of the Americans towards the new regime and when did it start to change? What agents were they using to send messages to Papadopoulos? What role did Greek-American tycoon Tom Pappas play? Why did the Navy movement fail? Who suggested to Turkey that Cyprus should go to Greece because it is “so much”?

Dark Decade

Dark Decade

The protagonists of the events reveal what was happening behind the scenes in the first years of the junta and how a series of wrong decisions exposed the country abroad and weakened the defense of Cyprus, they talk about the Papadopoulos-Ioannidis relationship, while eyewitnesses describe the time the tank invaded inside the Polytechnic on November 17, 1973.

Dark Decade

Dark Decade

Screenplay: Alexis Papachelas (Based on his books “The Rape of the Hellenic Republic” published by Estia and “A Dark Room” published by Metaichmio)
Directed by: Stefanos Bertakis
Editor-in-Chief: Sakis Ioannidis
Scientific Advisor: Tasos Sakellaropoulos
Production Execution: Leonidas Liampeis, Long Run Productions

DARK DECADE
1964 – 1974
With Alexis Papachelas

The new great documentary series
Every Monday at 21.00, on SKAI

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