Word: junta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...control of all aspects of academic life by military officers, the extensive use of spies and stoolpigeons, and the repressive legislation had but one effect: it forced the student movement underground. During the first three years of the junta a "Regas Pheraios" group--named for a hero of the 1821 Greek war of independence--was broken up by the military police and intelligence services. The members were tortured extensively and the group was severely crippled. In 1972, the dictatorship allowed elections for student council leaders for the first time since 1967. But as a result of ballot stuffing and repressive...
...spring of the same year students demanding academic freedom captured the University of Athens in the first violent expression of opposition to the junta. The demonstrations were crushed by the police and special legislation was passed which entitled the regime to draft dissident students into the army. Approximately 100 students were drafted at the time. The regime then turned its attention to an abortive navy coup and efforts to legitimize its pretense to the Greek people...
...students were on vacation when the junta carried through its referendum installing Papadopoulos as the president of the Greek "Republic" amidst cries and protests of fraud and deception at the ballot...
...leader is one, the people are the leader," "Down with Fascism," "Down with the junta," "Democracy," "People you starve, why don't you fight," "Bread--Education--Freedom," they yelled. And 20,000 Athenians gathered outside the Institute joined...
...Anti-junta: We are fighting for the overthrow of the junta...