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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.
Cypriots across Australia honour those who lost their lives in the EOKA struggle orthodoxianewsagency.gr - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from orthodoxianewsagency.gr Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
On this day in 1955, Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston was founded
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On April 1, Cyprus commemorates the start of the insurgence against the British in 1955.
Following the Russo-Turkish war (1877 – 1878), Cyprus was leased to the British Empire and was formally annexed by Britain at the end of the First World War.
Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston (EOKA) was a Greek-Cypriot guerrilla organisation founded on April 1, 1955, that aimed to fight for Cyprus’ independence against the British colonies and its union with Greece
Despite the fact that the Cypriots were against war and violence, the strong and persistent attitude of the British provoked them from resorting to an armed struggle however limited only to guerrilla warfare and to defensive opposition.