April 21, 1967, will always be known as a day that forever changed Greek history when the military took over the government and installed CIA-connected
Papadopoulos, a controversial Greek figure: From electrifying villages to betraying Cyprus
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April 21, 1967 will always been known as a day that forever changed Greek history, when the military took over government and installed CIA-connected Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos into power. Papadopoulos achieved this with the help of Brigadier General Stylianos Pattakos and Colonel Nikolaos Makarezos.
Justifying the dictatorship and the destruction of democracy, freedom of speech and freedom of press? A feared communist takeover of Greece.
Many remember the junta period fondly as one where Greece was safe and everybody had a job, in fact the regime would proudly announce Η Ελλάς είναι ένα εργοτάξιον, or in English, Greece is a construction zone.