“As today 58 years ago some wanted to put Greece in the plaster. With tanks, by force, they overthrew democracy, arguing that they “save the country”. And imposed a military dictatorship, censorship, persecution, torture, imprisonment, an authoritarianism based on fear, terror, weapons, enforcementZoe Konstantopoulou said on the occasion of the 58th anniversary of the April 21 coup.

The president of the Freedom Cruise stressed: ‘Others, and first of all the young, resisted, fought and kept the flame of democracy and freedom alive in the darkest days of the junta.

Many gave their lives, their freedom, dedicated their beautiful youth and bequeathed to us pride, wisdom, militancy, self -denial, humanity. Their example, inspiration for our own struggles. At a time when nostalgia and supporters of the junta, the deceased of the dead of the Technical University are the first ministers and government officials, it is of great value to remember what dictatorship means, what it meant in our country, which led, how it caused our tragedy and the tragedy of Cyprus. We will not stop to remind it“

Ms Konstantopoulou added that her party “has submitted an official proposal to Parliament since 17/11/2023 in order to declare November 17th, the anniversary of the uprising of the Polytechnic students in 1973, which marked its beginning. And we still officially proposed to Parliament in 2024, 50 years later, to declare a national anniversary of the rehabilitation of the Republic on July 23 and 24 “while noting that”The government’s fault in these formal proposals, which have both symbolism and meaningful content, has a specific interpretation: its refusal, after so many decades, to substantially and universally honor the anti -dictatorial struggle and to condemn morally and universally. In the face of denial, we oppose memory and responsibility, knowledge and optimism that, with struggle, work and perseverance, in the end the good will win. “.