Word: fascistes
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...decided to proceed with a political maneuver that would buy him time. He abolished the monarchy, made himself president of a republic, and installed a civilian premier who promised elections in 1974. It was an attempt to impose a Brazilian or Turkish style solution to the crisis, with the fascist junta actually retaining full power behind a facade of fake democratic procedures. It was, of course, again vocally rejected by democratic public opinion and political leaders. The students were also promised elections for university students councils, but under the control of government-appointed committees. This too was repeatedly rejected...
...Navy attempted to stage an anti-fascist coup that was nipped in the bud. The 240 officers and men on board the destroyer Velos sought political asylum in Italy and denounced the regime...
...response to this call of freedom was tremendous. There were about 5000-7000 students in the occupied building itself, but all around it there was a huge gathering of about 100,000 Athenians, demonstrating against the fascist regime in support of the student demands. Prominent among them were numerous workers, with construction workers at their head. Meanwhile in the outlying municipalities and working-class districts of Athens, church bells were ringing, calling on the people to join the students in their revolt. As the evening of the 16th of November wore on, there were already calls for a general strike...
...which had been lifted with the promise of elections, was re-imposed. And thousands of students and young workers were arrested, dealing a tremendous blow to student anti-junta organizations. Within a week of the revolt, Papadopolous himself was overthrown by the most extreme, uncompromising faction of the fascist clique, headed by Brigadier General Dimitri Ioannides. The last and most repressive phase of the dictatorship began. The prisons and concentration camps were again full...
...Polytechnic uprising proved that the Greek people's rejection of the fascist regime and its methods was almost unanimous. It created the subjective preconditions for even higher levels of anti-fascist activity. It reaffirmed the belief of the Greeks that a new start had to be made in the political life of the country. Its foundation would have to be the overthrow of the junta and the eradication of all those political structures, inherited from the U.S.-dominated post-Civil War period in Greece, that made a mockery of democracy and that culminated in this terrorist regime. Above...