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Alone in the rain, resistance fighter Manolis Glezos honors the dead of 1973 Students’ Uprising

November 17, 2017 Greece, Politics 4

A fighter to the bone. 95 years old. Manolis Glezos is holding two red flowers and with the help of a walking stick goes to the Polytechnic University in downtown Athens to honor the dead of the Students’ Uprising in 1973. When he arrives in front of the Monument, his …

Students’ Uprising-Nov 17, 1973: The Deads and the Songs (Videos)

November 16, 2011 Culture, Uncategorized 1

Remembering the “Stone Years” of Greek democracy… Every November 17, mothers and fathers recall the shocking moments when they learned their daughter or son was killied during the uprise – often a young boy or a girl , maybe a passerby. Uptodate the number of deads is unclear, it is estimated …

17 November 1973 – Students’ Uprising Against the Junta (videos)

November 16, 2011 Society 3

I do remember very well this Saturday morning I went alone to Athens downtown, on November 17, 1973. The night before an army tank had violently crashed down the main steel gate of the Polytechnic University campus bringing down the people clinging on it. I was a teenager then and had no …

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