“The experience of the Greeks from the horrible day that started on April 21, 1967 has not been forgotten “emphasizes SYRIZA-PS for the completion of 55 years since the coup of the Colonels.
He notes that “we are obliged to stand forever on the side of the peoples of the world who are facing violent conditions of constitutional change, freedom and border changes.” Referring to the words of George Seferis, he emphasizes that such a thing “is a national check”.
The announcement of SYRIZA-PS in detail:
“Fifty-five years have passed since the day when the cold Dictatorship of the Colonels was imposed on Greece. This period lasted seven years, however it was prepared long ago and the remnants of its nostalgia afflicted the public life of the place until recently.
The Greek people were caught in the eye of the storm and thousands of Freedom and Democracy fighters were found in exile and imprisoned. The youth of the place experienced an era of oppression of their rights, while many Greeks who were abroad did not have the right to return to their homeland or even their citizenship was taken away.
The junta was the combined result of internal and external contradictions. At home, it was an attempt to suppress the great democratic current that had been expressed, culminating in the Julian uprising and the resistance to apostasy. In the international picture it was defined by the Cold War and US policy in Europe.
The regime imposed an unprecedented state of political and cultural life on the country. The movement against the dictatorship had an international dimension with significant mobilizations of solidarity with the Greek people both in Europe and the rest of the world.
It was a situation of “mandatory sleep”, as George Seferis pointed out in his historic statement, in which he had seen that “in dictatorial situations the beginning may seem easy, but the tragedy awaits inevitable in the end”.
And this drama was nothing but the result of the actions of fascists who forcibly took over the reins of the country and led to the tragedy of Cyprus, which is still borne by their political descendants.
The experience of the Greeks from the horrible day that began on April 21, 1967 has not been forgotten. We are obliged to stand forever on the side of the peoples of the world who are facing violent conditions of constitutional change, freedom and border changes. And to recall Seferis, something like this “is a national check”.
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