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Sag mir wo die Blumen sind Marlene Dietrich,
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where have all the flowers gone Joan Baez
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Politics
Crammed into storages and churches of Northern Epirus, in Albania, remain the bones of hundreds of Greek soldiers killed during the Greek-Italian war of 1940 – 1941. Despite the agreement signed in 2008 between Greece and Albania, to create a second military cemetery on Albanian soil.
The original request of the Greek side was the creation of four military cemeteries in Korytsa, Kleisoura, Premeti and Himara, where there are bones of Greek soldiers are scattered. Athens and Tirana finally agreed on the establishment of two cemeteries,…. the following one! The only organized military cemetery for the Greek fallen soldiers is in Kleisoura!
Cemetery without Deads
In Kleisoura, where were fierce battles transpired between Greeks and Italians in March 1941, the military cemetery was built after the initiative of the Archbishop of Albania Anastasios. This would have been the place for the final rest of the fallen soldiers. The bones were exhumed from the battlefield and provisional mass graves during the wartime.
Although the construction of the cemetery have been completed since five years, the graves remain empty, since the Albanian side has not given the “green” light for the burial of the bones.
Roll Call 1940-41 : 11,911 Fallen Soldiers from Greece
During the Greek-Italian War 11,911 officers and soldiers lost their life on the battlefield. The vast majority, some 8,500, died within Albanian territory. Few deceased are entombed in a cemetery. Only one soldier could be identified at hand of his wedding ring.
The bones of thousands of fallen soldiers are still scattered and abandoned on mountains and forests….
According to
ProtoThema newspaper, the Albanian state still put obstacles so that this very human and emotional issue remains unsolved.
Music – Video:
A timeless classic, the most known Anti-War song
Original by singer/songwriter Pete Seeger “Where have all the flowers gone”.
Marlene Dietrich : Sag mir Wo die Blumen sind (German)
Pete Seeger found inspiration for the song in October 1955. Leafing through his notebook he saw the passage, “Where are the flowers, the girls have plucked them. Where are the girls, they’ve all taken husbands. Where are the men, they’re all in the army.” These lines inspiring Seeger were taken from the traditional Ukrainian lullaby “Tovchu, tovchu mak” (Grinding a Poppy).
Joan Baez : Where have all the Flowers Gone (English Version)
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You have no clue what you are talking about. You scum just poured concrete over a cemetery in Korca and unearthed villager bones just to make a statement, no Greek soldiers are buried there.
Most bones taken to the Greek cemeteries are of old people, Greece tried to increase the numbers.
*****Any monument placed under pressure (EU veto or bribing locals) will be destroyed with pleasure very soon. I will personally clean trash myself, to keep the country clean. Blackmail will backfire on you brainwashed Orthodox Turkss*****
That POS, Janullatos will go back to Greece too, let him help you thieves pay down the debt.
P.S. Only 10,000 ‘Greeks’ /brainwashed Albanians are now left, the rest are in Gayreece. Thank You!
To bury the dead is the least one can do to honour fallen soldiers. Whether you like it or not. Unless you sign agreements just for the shake of diplomacy show off.
I pay little regard to the rest of your comment, then I refuse to come down to your cultural level. You are welcome.
When you politicize it, it is not happening. I will personally do my part. I have no problem with burying the dead, even dead German or Turkish soldiers, but when you desecrate our graves, then it’s different.
The moron consul is saying that Greece liberated Albania in 1940. Huh? Forgot about the Germans and UK, New Zealand and Australia saved your ass from the Germans?
The moment inter-state agreements are signed it is automatically politicized for foreign policy (see: political) gains of the participating governments.
Who is the “moron consul”?
You built a memorial over Albanian graves without asking anyone and guess what, flowers were burned the minute the people from Greece came. Now everything else will be destroyed. How would you feel if Turkey, by paying off a few local poor people, build a memorial over Greek graves in Thrace without permission, and brought tens of Turks with buses each year? Exactly.
I don’t believe someone built a memorial in a foreign country without permission…
I don’t allow links in comments especially if I don’t understand what they are about.
And lastly… I don’t allow racists expressions.