RR7215A GREECE: FIVE YEARS UNDER THE COLONELS 

The sound editing on this is insane

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

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)

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

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

Gold Era

Still better than today

Sound editing 100

Does anyone happen to know when this video was originally made?

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.

Actually it was 7 years not 5

Sound editor went on vacation, it seems. Annoying.

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

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!

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

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

7:20 well also to the 'pioneer' organsiations

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

There’s no such thing as a bloodless coup.

This was Greece now it's Red Junta

God bless Papadopoulo God bless Greek military junta

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

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...

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

Hail to 21 April!

What a patriot everyone need a dictator like this one!

As a child, just came from 🇺🇸 age 7, i already feared at an age od 12+ going to Belgium 🇧🇪 , Portugal 🇵🇹 , Spain 🇪🇸 or Greece 🇬🇷. That period people went to Italy 🇮🇹 for their holidays and the apolitical or 😮 liberals went to Spain 🇪🇸 all ruled by feared police-military like beyond law standing people. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ONIyJJjucHk.html

Junta high five!

There nothing wrong with a bit of fascism..

Colonels were good