RR7215A GREECE: FIVE YEARS UNDER THE COLONELS

(12 Apr 1972) 7215/A: GREECE: FIVE YEARS UNDER THE COLONELS
On April 21st 1967, an army junta, led by Colonel
George Papadopoulos, seized power in Athens in a
bloodless coup. In Greece today, basic democratic
freedoms are severely curtailed, but if most Greeks
are not enthusiastic about the Government, neither
are they violently opposed to it, and many have
benefited economically from the stability the Colonels
have created. We review the political and economic
developments, and try to assess what sort of future
Premier Papadopoulos foresees.
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[@monoecumsemper]

Thank you for not calling the Papadopulos Government "fascists", which they were definitely NOT.

[@michealflaithbheartaigh4139]

The sound editing on this is insane

[@Confucius_76]

its wild

[@giorgosgalanos9888]

It's the one of the two channels. Not sure if it's the left or the right one.

[@genghiskhan3504]

It sounds like they have added unnatural random screams and noises to make it sound more "real"

[@macram16]

Honestly, what were they taking?

[@nobilesnovushomo58]

I’m pretty sure most of the Greeks, Socrates, and Plato, did not like democracy to say the least (Socrates for multiple reasons including one he was deceased from)

[@cosmicmusicreynolds3266]

democracy lives

[@nobilesnovushomo58]

@@cosmicmusicreynolds3266 And now Greece is a vassel state to the German-Franco dominated Political Union of Europe, and get to do Austerity instead of economic meddling to keep their welfare state as is.

[@monoecumsemper]

you are correct: they disliked democracy as it in their times quickly degenerated into a terrorist bloodthirsty monster.: ...doesn't it today ??????????

[@beingliving9599]

@A guy “Democracy is only as good as the education that surrounds it." Which is why most countries if not all, continually defund education. Socrates famously characterizes democracy as the rule of the unwise, corrupt mob. Like children loose in a candy store, the democratic herd pursues pleasure only, rewarding sweet-talkers and flatterers with the power of political office, who in turn exploit politics for their own gratification. The fact that he accepts his punishment doesn't mean that he likes democracy. The best form of government according to him is the rule of the wise.

[@aidancarey3480]

That’s what is unique about Papadopoulos’ attempt at political reordering. He was very supportive of political liberalization as early as 1969. He had even ordered elections in 1973 before the Junta of Ioannidis came to power. It was about creating a politically free state, but not a civically free state, not unlike what Classical philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle had proposed. The junta was supposed to be a temporary measure gone wrong.

[@ALPS8]

Gold Era

[@Mat8aios26]

Greece never in history had a king, it was put on us. My father is a royalist, not me as Ellada never had a king and Papadopolous loved Ellas and the Hellenic people!

[@marhaenthemchannelreupload1344]

Alexander ?

[@malakopitouras]

@@marhaenthemchannelreupload1344 macedonia, not greece

[@marhaenthemchannelreupload1344]

@@malakopitouras wait but his mother was greek

[@Greekmilsim]

Still better than today

[@Zekrom569]

"He is going to be here for a long time to go"...After 1 year approximately he was ousted :P

[@SpaltonTAG]

KudretQudrat Spyro you have a Turkish name and Greek surname

[@emo4126]

I guess the AP took the original films , refilmed them on a smartphone and uploaded it here

[@bigserbman5962]

Sound editing 100

[@terrycourtnadge4159]

Colonel Georgios Papadopolous was entirely 100% a front man ; the real power behind the Junta was Colonel later (promoted almost by himself) Brigadier Demetrious Ioannidis who seized almost total power a week following the November 17th massacre.

[@mareksicinski3726]

Why?

[@justmarios4551]

There was no massacre

[@tg..]

There was no massacre commie

[@Street_photographyGK]

Stop the lies....

[@colonelsmith7757]

I see your TV has taught you well.

[@annakosta]

The hero of Greece!!! He made Greece strong the problem was that he wanted to drill the black gold something Americans didnt wanted

[@Lefteris1283]

@@georgesherpa μα, είναι η αλήθεια αριστεροφασε κλαπαρχιδα

[@ekfylobifteki]

Σκασε μωρη β ρωμα!!!! ΓΤΧΣ

[@yoi2461]

@@georgesherpa Όλοι οι αντιφα σα του λόγου σου κυριαρχητε το κόσμο. Δεν είστε πλέον επαναστάτες, το ίδιο το σύστημα είστε ΕΣΕΙΣ.

[@vassiliss8506]

Alkimoi weren't founded by Papadopoulos but in 1923 after the destruction of Asia Minor.

[@AJRVXX]

Sound editor went on vacation, it seems. Annoying.

[@GModBMXer]

A unified Greece would've accomplished too much. It was saw fit to cripple itself.

[@georgemacpherson1992]

Actually it was 7 years not 5

[@panarkas]

It was 5 when they made the report

[@angelcalifornia215]

This was Greece now it's Red Junta

[@ekfylobifteki]

What red junta are you talking about... you're probably mad

[@user-fu3ir9hr3k]

@@ekfylobifteki he/she is probably referring to political correctness that it is a major issue in the entire Western world. Unfortunately this is right, in Greek society leftist traitors are winning.

[@ekfylobifteki]

@@user-fu3ir9hr3k είσαι ό,τι να ναι ...

[@user-fu3ir9hr3k]

@@ekfylobifteki καθόλου ο,τι να'ναι αριστερέ. Απλά θέλω να καθαρίσω την χώρα μου από τα παράσιτα.

[@ekfylobifteki]

@@user-fu3ir9hr3k πρώτον, δεν ανήκω σε καμία αριστερά. Δεύτερον, καθάρισε πρώτα τη μύτη σου από τις μυξες, που θες να καθαρίσεις και τη χώρα... τυρογαλο!

[@emo4126]

There is a great movie about this by the great Greek-French director Costa Gavras . The movie title is simply " Z " . Z was the title of a protest song which means "He Lives" . The he it refers to in The film refers to Grigoris Lambrakis a democratic politician who was assassinated in 1963

[@mareksicinski3726]

protest slogna in gneeral too

[@emo4126]

@@mareksicinski3726 after ww2,my country usa's governments have always supported right wing fascists and overthrows of resource rich but weak militarily countries who elect democratically decent governments who raise wages, salaries, give benefits and tax the rich and corporations higher. The filthy rich in US, and in those countries don't like "humanity" and decency to cut back their profits . They are wealth addicts and will use any means to keep getting more and more wealth

[@NGCS-ej4lz]

"Costa-Gavras was born in Loutra Iraias, Arcadia. His family spent the Second World War in a village in the Peloponnese, and moved to Athens after the war. His father had been a member of the Pro-Soviet branch of the Greek Resistance, and was imprisoned during the Greek Civil War. His father's Communist Party membership" Typical.

[@look_into_it]

@@NGCS-ej4lzprobably Jewish

[@urbanfashiontrendstv9072]

*A new Junta is needed in present day Greece, preferably without CIA interference this time.*

[@kamitsoglouuu]

If it's Marxist-Leninist, like the Libyan one, if it's like this shit that makes me feel embarrassed about my country, if it's a right wing one, I don't want it. We don't want it. We don't need it. And me, as a patriotic greek, I support socialism and all socialist countries and their leaders, rather than these scumbags such as traitor Metaxas, who also collaborated with the Nazis, (he sold political prisoners to Hitlerites and it's well known) and Georgios Papadopoulos.

[@demostheodorakakis6328]

Shut up.

[@thanasisrks4944]

That only a revolution can bring since most of our military leaders are influenced by NATO and will not make a coup.

[@mikem8211]

This wall done so they could rob Cyprus for the Turks Americans and British.

[@L_back]

You sure it was CIA, even back then? I know they’re not holy, but people are apparently even accusing the Vatican of supporting the coup

[@AnEnemy100]

There’s no such thing as a bloodless coup.

[@AALavdas]

Well, that one was. There was torture and some casualties later, but the coup itself was bloodless

[@2003fordranger]

God damnit if he would’ve continued till today, Greece would be a super power with nuclear weapons.

[@captainopvious7498]

i know right he had visions that could happen

[@mustimon]

Lol turkey kicked his ass lol

[@thanospappos1078]

@@mustimon lol no

[@VergilDarkslayer]

@@mustimon you woke up yet cause thsnks to him you got only one city

[@user-fu3ir9hr3k]

@@mustimon Lol you do not know history Turkish boy. Papadopoulos was imprisoned in November 1973 after Ioannidis overthrew him with a new Coup d'etat. Turkish invasion of Cyprus happened during Ioannidis' administration.

[@Lefteris1283]

God bless Papadopoulo God bless Greek military junta

[@_Mrrock]

Based pfp

[@Mary-mt4vs]

Does anyone happen to know when this video was originally made?

[@ekfylobifteki]

1972

[@captainopvious7498]

What a patriot everyone need a dictator like this one!

[@ekfylobifteki]

F you and all fascists

[@Confucius_76]

@@ekfylobifteki F you and all communists

[@ekfylobifteki]

@@Confucius_76 your mamaaaaaaa

[@Confucius_76]

@@ekfylobifteki yo mama's so fat

[@kamitsoglouuu]

That's all fascist propaganda, the prime minister Georgios Papadopoulos is actually a traitor of the Greek people. During the WWII he was an officer of the infamous "Security Battalions", responsible for collecting crops from Achaia prefecture in order to provide them to the Nazis.

[@stefanosntoumas4321]

Hail to 21 April!

[@sto_karfi842]

Papadopoulos announced elections with political parties in January.In 17th of November, obvious the Americans(colonel Patacos in visit to USA was asked about rumours of incidents in areas known with names only among locals, Patacos was wondering how they managed to learn all of this, and certainly wasn't by newspapers) orchestrated a riot from the leftists in the polytechnic school of Athens, they moved quickly to use the popular anger(there was marshal law in the 3 major cities for far too long) to their favor by calling the people to get to the streets as free citizens, problem is that is was obvious that after the elections of January the greeks would have the right to judge the goverment and not being restricted of their liberties, the leftists were aware of this, so why they did not wait to see the outcome of the elections, or if it was so desperate to stand against the junta, why they did not do that earlier? The most realistic scenario is that Papadopoulos was aware of schemes against his regime and so he moved to a checkmate by announcing elections, the Americans saw their efforts and momentum going away and the future unpredictable and with new conditions coming, so they speed up their plans.Patacos warned Papadopoulos of Ioannides' schemes but Papadopoulos did not listen, Ioannides was a man of the underworld, he was in charge of the police department of Piraeus the days of Troumpa, the most infamous area in Athens were the brothels, drugs, cutthroats and night's godfathers were residing,during his days(before the coup) the area was in its best, he was torturing people for fun,THIS guy the Polytechnic riot brought in charge of the junta, and of course no other similar riot happened cause Ioannides wasn't good politician, he wasn't a fox,rather stupid.The Americans drove him to a national tragedy to overthrow the junta, his sayings to his close supporters were "I am having pressure and guarantees from the international factor to move plans with Cyprus" , obviously the Americans were bluffing.A similar bluff was orchestrated against Papadopoulos, but during his visit in USA the british ambassador in USA who was greek warned them for the American plans.Conclusion, any military junta is bad cause it suppresses people's liberties, though it would be better to have a democracy like that of Erdogan with Papadopoulos on top rather than the democracy that was going on at that time.And for my greek readers, some years before the coup, the farmers in Agrinio protested, the police opened fire killing many protesters, so I'm asking what liberty did we have to be taken by the colonels, no doubt neither of two is good and no doubt the colonels overdone it but better seeing efforts of fixing something broken rather living into a broken reality with the rulers thinking it works clockwise...

[@giorgosgalanos9888]

"fixing something broken" ...reminds us the speeches of Papadopoulos about patiens, broken bones, surgeries, gypsums casts, etc. Creepy stuffs...

[@Thomas_14_Ottobre]

the British ambassador in the USA was not Greek. What is the source of your information ?

[@malakopitouras]

And yet with limited freedom we had far better freedom economically and socially. If USA remained out of foreign affairs Greece would've become a regional power at the rate it was growing.. Today's infrastructure is a slight upgrade of that which was built by papadopoulos, so many years have passed and all of the money the government now owes as debt has gone into the pockets of the "democratic" parliament members without any infrastructure expansion. Our democracy is a hypocracy, open your eyes.

[@eljeffe3120]

@@malakopitourasGreeks are finished lol

[@Peterkonto]

There nothing wrong with a bit of fascism..

[@apollon755]

i hope you re joking,cause no fascism,happened there...expect if youre a left eye communist ,and everything you see (as always)is fascism to you..!!

[@mareksicinski3726]

7:20 well also to the 'pioneer' organsiations

[@MokingJay-Ilysium]

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[@reactionarylion2054]

Junta high five!

[@511ab]

Colonels were good