The Grand Changing Of The Evzones Guard Parade (4K) 

Me being a British citizen I lived in Greece for 23 years ex wife Greek,my two sons have done their national service for their mother's country . Haven't heard from them yet after 12 years but I'm still proud of them. Zito Ella's. Kypros is Greek.

Respect Greeks

Informations, from a Greek..: Homer ( The far ancient, Greek poet, who wrote Odyssey and Iliad, many thousands of years, before us..), is the first who spoke about Ev-zones. The word Ev-zones, means "the ancient fighter, who is so good and experienced, that the only thing he needed, was a belt, made from good quality, not easy to broke, and with practical positions for his arms ( sword, etc ). The second man who spoke about Evzones, was Herodotus ( the Greek "father of History", the first who puts the bases of international historical writing ), at the known ancient-classical times of Greece. Nowdays, in order to honer, our ancient history and our fighters ancestors, the Tomb of Unknown Soldier, shows an ancient fighter, and the guards, are Evzones.. Uniform of Evzones..: Their hat is red, and shows the blood that we gave, for our freedom.. The black "strings" of the hat, are our tears for our dead, who gave their blood.. In general, the uniform is white, because our cause of fight ( freedom and justice ), is noble and "pure". Ancient Greeks, were mostly wearing the "chlamys". The "skirt", ( which we call it Foustanella ), is the nowdays "chlamys", showing that our history continuous.. Foustanella, is the "next generation" of chlamys, and we made Foustanella, at the times of Greek Byzantine Empire. And it was very practical, because our fighters, were fighting at the wild mountains, and couldnt have organized hospital etc. So with Foustanella, which was easy to be made, they could take care they wounds very easy, than with trousers. Also Foustanella was warm at winter, and cold at summer. And Foustanella, was a psycological weapon also.. because when the barbarians were threating us, it was more easy for us, to show them our balls.. so they knew, that we are fearless.. The Foustanella, have 400 edges, showing the 400 years, of occupasion of the Ottomans (400 years, of torturing.. slaughtering.. etc.. ). Shoes, are made of hard leather, with big nails, under them. The nails were very important for the fighters, because the land of Greece is full of mountains, and rocky places, and the fighters needed to defend themselves, or attack, on "bad" terrain. The black "fluffy" thing, at the front of the shoes, hides inside, a small knife, showing that, in order to fight for your freedom, you must fight with everything you have ( hands and feet ), and with arms that the enemy cant see.. And the guards, keep their feet high, to show how they were stabbing the barbarians.. Nowdays, when the guards walking, they hit hard their feet to the ground, so our ancestors can hear the nails, and they know that Greeks are still here.. alive.. and free.. Unfortunately, there are some people, who dont know, and they dont ask, about this "funny skirt ", and they only laughing at this uniform. ( Some of them knows, like Albanians and Turks, but they were-are allies against Greeks, so they dont count..) They must know, that this is an ancient fighters uniform, and these fighters were fought against Barbarians, countless of times, and if they can laugh, is because these fighters, kept them free of barbarism.. If they can look in a mirror, and can say that they are humans, and not Barbarians, is because of these Greek fighters, with THIS uniform.. And we deserve and demand, from all, to respect the blood that we gave.. for freedom and justice, against Barbarians, through thousands of years.. And an extra information..: At the very old times, when the ancient Greeks, travelled all around this planet, and named many places, they found an island, very beautiful, but foggy. They called this island "land of Skot-os".. In Greek means, the land without sun. Nowdays, this island is called Scot-land.. The national uniform, of the great Scottish nation, is kilt.. Kilt and foustanella, seems to have the same ancestor.. the chlamys..

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What a unique tradition, respect from Indonesia

Amazing!

Ευτυχώς που έχουμε τέτοιες ψυχές που ποθούν την Ελλάδα και κοιμομαστε ήσυχοι...!!

Does any one know the music's name here? 3:34-4:25 Ξέρει κανείς το όνομα της μουσικής εδώ; 3:34-4:25

No ladies in the Evzones?

Really nice quality video..Sad they're wearing the mask of the plan-demic.

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You can of course very respectfully mumble something about culture and such, but it is actually just as nonsensical as it looks. And the party becomes complete at 1:24. The orchestra starts. Where those pumpkin shoes were keeping time, this bunch of musicians (??) were honking their horns as if they were completely drunk. Untuned, untamed, and I love it.

I can't help it. The Greeks not only have the silliest-looking parade uniforms, but also the silliest-looking drill I know of. Not even the Chilenians with their prussian goose-stepping and Pickelhauben, heck, not even the Indian/Pakistani cockfight (complete with rooster combs) at the Wagah/Attani border stack up to that. Sure, it's theirs and they're welcome to it, but I speak it as I see it.

Skirty clowns are too funny...

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