Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Troops always attend these "popular rallies. On the way to the meeting places the army shouts slogans like "Long live the Revolution, April 21, 1967"--the day the colonels took over, of course. This time, officers apparently had instructed the 2,000 soldiers to mingle with the crowd in groups...
Georges Papandreou, Greece's former prime minister and leader of the Center Union Party, was jailed at the outbreak of the revolution and has only recently been freed. His son, Andreas, the leader of the left wing of the Center Union, is also free and reportedly in Sweden.
All labor strikes will be outlawed. The junta repeatedly uses the rhetoric of saving the Greek Christian Civilization from the old days when workers were constantly on strike and students were always throwing stones. The constitution restricts unions from organizing against the interests of the existing social order. It's...
Although the junta originally said the revolution was necessary to save the monarchy, young King Constantine is now in exile in Italy. He fled Greece after attempting to seize power from the junta on Dec. 13, 1967. Under the 1952 document the king had a lot of influence on paper...
Widespread anxiety has slowed the Greek economy to a walk. The government keeps prices low, so most people can buy enough to live on. But no one is interested in buying anything, outside of subsistence goods, except land. Nobody has respect for the Greek currency. Many people said they were...