When Mussolini declared war, he said: I'll be drinking coffee on the Acropolis by tomorrow evening. 9 months later a greek soldier asked an Italian one: Where is Mussolini? Tell him that his coffee is getting cold.
There was a similar anecdote with a Spanish rebel general named Mola during the SCW, in which he stated that he would drink a coffee from a popular café in Madrid soon (as sign that the city had fallen). In response, the café in question set up a plank on one of the tables saying "reserved for general Mola", and sent daily telegrams reminding him that his coffee was getting cold. He died without ever tasting the coffee, as he was killed in action a year and a half prior to the fall of Madrid.
@@marcoc2703 not even that donkies did the trick also if i am not mistaken so.e tanks where capsured because they threw covers as in bed covers on them and the crew couldnt see
Fun fact no.1: Today Greece has 1500 tanks. Greece has more tanks than France, UK and Germany combined. Fun fact no.2: Greece today does not need donkeys, even if it has more than enough.
Pizza is Greek invention from ancient years ,even recent napoletana where pizza is known nowadays, napoli or neapoli in Greek, is a Greek colony as most of sicily and south Italy.
May I recommend the Spanish civil war song "un joven de Alcalá" (a young man from Alcalá)? It's about as funny as this one. The lyrics (translated): There is a young man from Alcalá, who if he gets angry he goes. He threw a grenade to some fascist moors* screaming "may you be saved by Allah!" Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay... The Lincoln battalion, what a bunch, a bit crazy all day inside of the trenches for months defending the front against Franco, the Duce's lackey. Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay... In the plains of Brunete, steel rained like confetti as our planes tore the ranks of Franco filled of spaghetti. Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay... The Lincoln guys in Jarama, made the fascists scream "Mommy!" defending the front, playing with bombs, and so they gained honor and fame. Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay... An old man from Albacete, bets that he gets to sixteen bombs inside their asses signed by him, so they won't use the toilet again! Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay... *Moroccan mercenaries used by the Spanish nationalists. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hbCbUlr3EgU.html
Okay, I'm now legitimately convinced this man goes back in time and captures the original song makers and points a gun at them and says to sing it flawlessly.
As an Italian this is really a funny song. In Italy we have songs against fascism too, but no song mocking Mussolini as a person. Modern Greek is a really graceful language by the way. Italy and Greece have so much in common, so much culture and history. It is really a pity that we have been in war, a sad mistake.
Don't worry, between Geonese, Venetians and Italian conquerors, we are now accustomed to you and you are our favourite overlords. Italian is even more graceful language. It's...musical language!
The Metaxist ideology ruling Greece and the then dictator, Ioannis Metaxas, could both be accurately described as ‘fascist.’ >national regeneration of Greece >desire for an ethnically and culturally homogenous Greece >individual interests subordinate to those of the nation >anti-liberalism It met all the hallmarks of what is defined in academia as ‘fascism.’
@@konig4643 you're right, but even if Metaxas was a dictator he was still defending his country against a foreign invader. I am sure that even the Greeks who hated Metaxas and his regime would have preferred him over a foreign dictator.
@@konig4643 In deed. He had also copied organizative features from the italian fascist party, like the "youth" organization or he called his regime "3rd greek civilization" and similar economic program (he introduced social security for the 1st time). The main difference with italian fascism was that his was in favour of the monarchy and of the church and that he didn't advertize his regime as "fascism" and didn't call himself or his followes as "fascists". In a way, he was a hybrid between Francisco Franco and Mussolini.
In the Spanish civil war the Republicans had songs that mention Mussolini in a mocking manner, for instance the song "Joven de Alcalá" (Young man of Alcalá) has the line "Franco, lackey of the Duce", and the song "¿Qué será?" ("What will be?") about the naval battle of Cape Palos in which the Republican navy defeated the Nationalist one has the line "they have so many Germans, so many Italians, and yet a Spanish soldier beats them with one hand".
@@ascaro1885 dimmi che sei un tipico idiota mezzo nazionalista, senza dirmi che sei un tipico idiota mezzo nazionalista. Oh yeah, they really fought like warriors, with English support in every branch of the military, and us, with General Badoglio who could not even organize an invasion. But for you, it's obviusly fight like warriors. Nobody Talks about of how we wrecked the British, and greek navy, that was the biggest in the mediterranean.
You guys really messed up, you invaded Greece thinking you were Romans but instead turned out to be incompetent, leaders who couldn’t lead with a military-industry which was utterly useless. You literally lost to foot-soldiers with WWI weapons while you had a superiority in air, naval and tank power. 😂 Respect to Eternal Rome, but please remind your leaders of this. Don’t just say this in comment-sections
My grand grandfather was an officer in Italian Artillery during Invasion of Yugoslavia, then fought in Greece. Was wounded by a Greek shell during Invasion, to my grandfather told that never have seen such brave warriors! While my other grand grandfather was an Italian officer in Infantry, he freely spoke Croatian, Italian, German and Greek. He had enormous respect for Greek POWs and treated them kindly. This invasion was not only a mistake from a military point of view, but from a just human point of view. Hope we’ll never fight again, cause we’re brother nations after all!
@@greekmanjason449 well, here in Triest we have a Greek Orthodox Church, a Greek commune. Many Greek students studied and study here in Trieste :) I regularly visit Greece because of my grandfather’s Greek friends, for me you’re an amazing nation, and definitely a brother one
@@robespierre2837 Certainly, saying that he did almost everything wrong implies he did something right... which he didn't. Also, he didn't build Italy, if anything the opposite is true.
Even though I’m Italian this song makes me laugh every time because of the insults the sent us The spaghetti eater is probably one of the best lines ever written
@@comradehiganbana потому что он был лучшим вариантом в довольно трудное время. После Первой Мировой у нас был кризис, правительство очень слабое, а Муссолини был твёрдым лидером, знающим. Итальянцы ему доверяли, и Италия процветала, но вторжения в Грецию, и дальнейшее вступление во ВМВ стало большущей ошибкой.
@@shingosshojiopoulos6608 he didn't say Italy is balkan, he said Greece and Italy are mediterranean nations and we have a shared history of that goes back millennia. The people have always been friendly with each other despite the many troubles. There is literally nothing mentioned against the italians in Greece despite the war. We all blame Mussolini for it.
@@MiddleEast-4Ever helped you get independence, fought against the Turks with you in WW1, fought against the axis together in WW2, helped the Greeks win the Greek civil war and a fair bit more
@@sircoloniser5454 hah u are a fucking liar it was Sykes Picot of UK who made a deal with the Ottoman turks to devide the land of the Kurds in WW1 that's why the Kurds don't have a country today it is well know as Sykes Picot agreement.
@@sircoloniser5454 yeah meanwhile most of the “support” you talk about was some small teams which half of the time screwed Greece over like the one in Crete or pulled out of Greece during WW1, also you installed various unwanted kings in Greece and the communists were mostly dealt with the Greeks themselves as they were the ones that had to get their hands bloody while you stood still close by in the Ionian islands or should I add how you forced decisions upon the Greeks or how you shot down innocent various times when they protested. Yeah we can all see your superiority complex from a mile away.
This actually isn't the only "Ochi Day" song, there's an other one called "Κορόιδο Μουσολίνι" Which translates to "Mussolini You Fool" The entire song is directly targeted at him and it's just a roast dedicated to him
And it is the Italian song Reginella Canpagnola with changed lyrics. And a story about that song: when the Italians entered Ioannina and they paraded in the city center, kids started singing that song. The adults followed soon after. The Italian army band thought Greeks were praising them (because they didn't understand the lyrics and the music was Italian), so they started playing that song too.
Fun fact in the Italian French border a French town put up a sign that says "greek soldiers stop advancing this is French territory" to mock the Italians
@@chiefengineer7607 India is Hindu majority country so....Its a bit rare for a christian Indian man.. Now you're computer has virus and i want you to gib me ur bank account pins to fix it
@@attila4585 Believe it or not, Greece has more active Tanks than Germany. Unless they retired some recently. In Europe, only Ukraine was more. I don’t count Turkey bcuz they are not European 👍🏻
@@m.sorikar3195 When ukraine learn to fight with honour without TRILLIONS from the secret goverments of the world then it should be yours, for as long as ukrainians are little puppets of the puppet masters ODESSA IS RUSSIAN, A GIFT FROM THE GREEKS.
Σ'ευχαριστώ που το ανέβασες ρε μεγάλε. Το έψαχνα εχθές σο κανάλι σου και δεν το έβρισκα. Many thanks for uploading this, I looked for it on your channel yesterday and was surprised you didn't already have it. My grandfather fought in the artillery division in the Greco-Italian war. To any greek people that still have living veterans, many thanks to these brave men and women.
@@Spartangladiator668 What do you mean no brain? He said it perfectly! We didnt have a tank division but a little later we had one.... from all the captured tanks!
Weird,we just celebrated 29th October a day early,and in the celebrations Hasan Tahsin was praised,who shot the first bullet in the occupation of İzmir,starting the Greco-Turkish war.
No brother everything is behind us and no Greek thinks of Italy as an enemy we just celebrate the fact that such a small country held back the evil that were nazzies(idk how its spelled) not Italians
I keep listening to it - it reminds me of my late great grandfather, who killed thirty SS officers during the war. Much love and respect to Greece from France 🇫🇷❤️🇬🇷
Small note, the song talks about Korytsa/Korce and Argyrocastro/Girokastra in such a light because those were important Greek cities that were liberated by Greece from the Ottoman Turks, but were given to Albania because of Italian demands prior to WW2. Italy was a Greek enemy even before Mussolini, and they didn't want Greeks to control the entrance to the Adriatic. Even today, those cities are centers of the modern Greek minority of Northern Epirus
This is true! Italians would rather a smaller weak Nation control the other side of the Adriatic Passage than Greeks. Its Geopolitics 101 & it doesn't care about the "people's" friendships.
Συγχαρητήρια για την ημέρα του ΟΧΙ! Μια μεγάλη αγκαλιά για όλους τους Έλληνες, αγαπώ τη χώρα τους και τον πολιτισμό τους, έχουν αφήσει μεγάλη επιρροή στη χώρα μου και σε όλο τον κόσμο. Χαιρετίσματα από την Ισπανία! 🇪🇦💞🇬🇷🇨🇾
Never heard this version but it's way better than the original. LONG LIVE GREECE, HAPPY OXI DAY from Free Cyprus 🇨🇾🇬🇷🇨🇾🇬🇷🇨🇾🇬🇷🇨🇾🇬🇷🇨🇾🇬🇷ΖΗΤΩ Η ΕΛΛΑΣ,ΖΉΤΩ ΤΟ ΕΘΝΟΣ!
@@patriotic7896 Both Greece and Cyprus are full of wars. Mostly wars that others declared on us because they wanted our land and resources but they were usually using the excuses that we "are enslaving their people" or that "we killed one of them" or just because of their ideology like Italy.
με φασίστες "στον Β' Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο" The text inside the quote marks is how you say "in ww2" But thanks for typing in Greek!! We Greeks return your love to Poland 🇬🇷❤🇵🇱
@@denissaliaj9459 We broke your Camera 📷…remember your father Zervas? Remember WW2??? Visconti Prasca blamed the DEFEAT on the POOR QUALITY of the albanian Soldiers based on the fact that an ENTIRE [N@zi-formed] albanian Regiment had been DECIMATED by the Greeks in Epirus !!! 🇬🇷✊🏻 We have your rags in our War Museums! Come if you feel Brave enough tourkosporo! 😃
As a Kurd, the only country in whose army I want to volunteer is Greece. I remember from my childhood, my elders used to tell a story about the Greeks: Once upon a time, a great and feared ruler asked the Greeks to surrender their weapons. The Greek commander responded with one sentence: "Come and get it!"
Spartans was really good in badass responses, Phillip the 2nd of macedon (Alexander's father) was near sparta with his army and he send a message "if i come to sparta I'll burn the city to the ground and enslave all the ppl" and the Spartans responded with a single word "if"
Also is the battle of Thermopylae a Persian ambassador told to spartans "our arrows is so much that will cover the sun" and the Spartans responded "then we will fight in the shade"
You are not responsible for your ancestor's actions. Next time you occupy us, bring us some food though. Pasta, salami, chicken a bit of wine would be nice! And, Italians, please, don't get upset from the song. It was a war propaganda song to cheer up the soldiers in the front.
