In greek , it is ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΑ Η ΘΑΝΑΤΟΣ And it has 9 syllables so that's why we have 9 lines on our flag , and the cross represents the Jews. The white color represents the birds of freedom and the blue color of the sky.
ΜΟΝΑΧΑ ΑΠΟ ΣΕΒΑΣΜΟ ΣΤΟΥΣ ΝΕΚΡΟΥΣ ΚΑΙ ΣΤΟΥΣ ΓΕΡΟΝΤΕΣ ΣΤΑ ΠΑΙΔΙΑ ΓΩΝΑΤΙΖΟΥΜΕ..Η ΦΡΟΝΤΗΔΑ ΝΑ ΖΕΙΣ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΟΣ ..ΓΙΑ ΣΟΥ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ ΟΠΟΙΑ ΠΕΤΡΑ ΚΙ ΑΝ ΣΗΚΩΣΟΥΝ ΘΑ ΒΡΟΥΝ ΕΝΑΝ ΚΑΙ ΜΙΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΔΑ ..ΕΤΣΥ ΕΙΜΑΣΤΕ.ΤΟ ΑΛΑΤΙ ΤΗΣ ΓΗΣ.
He has many collaborators mate The Chinese, Iranians, etc the list goes on also the fools that allowed Him to billed his wealth like the Germans and the turks through oil
When the Germans warned the Athenians about helping Jews, my grandparents said "Yes" when they were asked by three people standing on their doorstep who asked "We are Jews, will you help us?" The man, his wife and her brother lived with our family for 3 years until the Germans were driven out of Greece. They all survived to move to Israel in 1948 and raise a family. I am so proud of my grandparents for doing that. Their answer to German compliance was OXI.
As an Italian who had the immense luck and privilege to study and learn the Ancient Greek language, poetry, tragedy and culture I feel very obliged to them and I love them as much as I love my own life. There will be no light in this world without the contribution of people like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Aeschylus, etc. I feel like we're all Greeks after all. Oh, and btw Greeks and Italians get along very well too, lol... They give the best parties and we love to party alongside them, lol.
@Thomas I could write a long comment about the British contribution to the free world too. Amazing people, amazing history. Just think about the Magna Charta. And the Led Zeppelin lol ...
The point is that Greeks, during our history, had saved Europe two critical times which, certainly, would had been a turning point in the history of this continent. The first one was against Perseans and the second one was against "Germans". But the reason we did that wasn't because we had been obliged to save the rest of the countries. The reason we did that was because Hellas is the light which illuminates everything that is right in this muddy world. So, it was and still is our duty to fight against anyone who wants to bring the world into darkness and chaos. That's our nature. The rest of Europe prospered, because we had the courage and the "sthenos" to stand against an enemy, who had made countries like France and Austria surrender hands-down. Now, after all our struggles, people of Europe mock us. They call us lazy, naive, beggars who keep asking for money in order to save their collapsing economy. I won't get into details about how we ended up into this terrible situation. Anyone with a common sense and a little observation can understand that. But, stay assured. This light will never fade. And when the time comes and darkness starts spreading again, we will be there to say "NO" to the tyrants. Because that's our nature and always will be.
@Nick Zero είσαι μαλακας αγόρι μου;....οι Έλληνες δεν έσωσαν ποτέ κανέναν άλλον λαό πέρα από τον δικό μας....το μόνο "ηρωικό" που κάναμε ήταν να μην δεχτούμε την υποταγή στους Ιταλούς και τελικα μας κατέκτησαν για δύο χρόνια αλλά επειδή ο Μουσολίνι ήταν άχρηστος και εμείς περήφανοι απελευθερωθηκαμε
ΟΧΙ , ΔΕΝ ΗΜΑΣΤΕ ΣΑΝ ΟΛΕΣ ΑΥΤΕΣ ΤΙΣ ΒΑΛΚΑΝΙΚΕΣ ΧΩΡΕΣ ΠΟΥ ΔΕΝ ΕΧΟΥΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ , ΕΙΜΑΣΤΕ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΙ ΣΕ ΛΑΟ ΠΟΥ ΕΧΟΥΝ ΠΕΡΑΣΕΙ ΠΟΛΛΑ ΚΑΙ ΠΟΛΕΜΑΜΕ ΓΙΑ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ ΟΧΙ ΚΟΜΜΟΥΝΙΣΜΌ Η ΦΑΣΙΣΜΟ. ΖΗΤΩ Η ΕΛΛΑΔΑ
I used to hear my dad say that what Greece contributed in ww2 changed the outcome of the war cz Greece did make Germany delay cz we sand the Italians packing and Germany had to detour to finish what Itallians could not , and fought Russia in the winter and lost . . also a major battle took place in the mountains of northern Greece where about 14 soldiers inside mountain took on a battalion of Germans with their big cannon guns and had killed thousands of Germans, Athens had surrendered but they were still fighting , after they surrenderd the Nazis saluted those soldiers for their bravery. Greek people today say OXI to all oppression...
His name was Dimitris Itsios, he and 5 (not 14) more soldiers killed more than 250 Germans and surrender only when they were out of bullets( they used more than 38.000 bullets)
As a Greek, I feel honoured to hear that there are still people who look at the bright and positive aspects of Greece and not just the silly fact that our economy is doing bad now a days. Thank you for spreading this message and for helping us look good around the world. OXI!!!!!
Ο μεταξάς είπε το Όχι μόνο για να μην τον μισήσει ο λαός. Ήταν δικτάτορας, κατά του κοινοβουλευτισμού, κατέλυσε το Σύνταγμα, ήταν ναζιστης υπέρ του συγκεντρωτισμού. Το ότι είπε το Όχι δεν πάει Α πει ότι δεν ήθελε να είναι στο πλευρό της Γερμανίας
@@konstantinag.6756 Ο Μεταξάς ηταν φιλογερμανός αλλά όχι ναζιστής. Ο Μεταξάς ήταν μιλιταριστής (εξού και η γραμμή Μεταξά, αναδιοργάνωση και εκσυγχρονισμός στρατού) και απέχει παρασάγγας απο το ναζισμό. Αν και πράγματι δικτάτωρ, οφείλουμε να αναγνωρίσουμε πως τα γρήγορα αντανακλαστικα του και η σωστή του κρίση, μας τοποθέτησαν στη σωστή πλευρά, αυτή των νικητών.
@@Airknightangel Όπως ο Βασιλιάς Κωνσταντίνος το 1915 υποστήριξε την ουδετερότητα της χώρας, καθώς δεν μπορούσε να ζητήσει συμμετοχή στο πλευρό των κεντρικών δυνάμεων δεδομένης της κυριαρχίας της Αγγλίας στην Ανατολική Μεσόγειο, έτσι και ο Μεταξάς δεν επέλεξε να πει το Όχι επειδή το ήθελε. Δεν μπορούσε να μην αρνηθεί εξαιτίας του επαναστατικού αναβρασμού του λαού, δεν το έκανε λόγω της οξύνειας του και της διπλωματικότητας του. Ναι ίσως έκανε κάποια καλά, εν τούτοις μην ξεχνάμε ότι ενώ είχε μόνο 4% των εδρών στο κοινοβούλιο μετά την ψήφο εμπιστοσύνης από το ΚΚΕ σχημάτισε κυβέρνηση και με μη θεμιτά μέσα κατέλυσε το Κοινοβούλιο, 4 Αυγούστου του 1936 επέβαλε δικτατορία και εφάρμοσε δικτατορικά σχέδια. Δεν πρέπει να ξεχνάμε ότι ήταν ο άνθρωπος ο οποίος έβαλε τέλος σε μια ολόκληρη περίοδο δημοκρατίας για την Ελλάδα. Δεν ήταν καλός "ηγέτης ακόμα και αν δεν θέλουμε να το παραδεχθούμε δεδομένου ότι οηρε αυτή την απόφαση.
@@konstantinag.6756 Μα και η υστεροφημία του δεν είναι η καλύτερη στη κοινή γνώμη(που συνήθως δεν εμβαθύνει ιστορικά όσο θα έπρεπε). Για τον λόγο αυτό δεν γιορτάζουμε τον Μεταξά που είπε το όχι αλλά το όχι που είπε ο Μεταξάς (και φυσικά εξέφραζε την τότε κοινή γνώμη). Παρ' όλα αυτά θεωρώ άδικο να χαρακτηρίζεται κάποιος λάθος και δη τόσο βαριά, ιδιαίτερα όταν έφερε θετικό αποτέλεσμα έστω την εσχάτη στιγμή. Σε οτι αφορά τον παραλληλισμό με τον βασιλιά Κωνσταντίνο θεωρώ πως δεν ευστάθει καθώς η ναυτική υπεροχή των συμμάχων (Βρετανών) στη μεσόγειο το 1940, δεν επαρκούσε ώστε να αναμετρηθεί με την Luftwaffe(εαν αυτή έχει ως ορμητήριο την Ελλάδα). Άρα ο Μεταξάς δεν είχε τίποτα να φοβάται, τουναντίον μάλιστα καθώς θεωρητικά θα εξασφαλίζε στη χώρα σίγουρη προστασία μέχρι τη λήξη του πολέμου. Αλλά όπως φαίνεται και με τις ενέργειες που έλαβε, διέβλεπε βαθύτερα και γιαυτό είναι ένας άξιος στρατιωτικός, είχε στοιχεία καλού ηγέτη γιατί δεν έπαιξε πολιτικό παιχνίδι διχασμού του λαού στη κρίσιμη στιγμή αλλά δυστυχώς υπήρξε ένας δικτάτωρας στη περίοδο διακυβέρνησης του και αυτό αναμφίβολα επισκιάζει τα περισσότερα θετικά.
I am not Greek and only found out about OXI day a few years ago from a Greek friend, but your story makes my heart swell with pride and gratitude. Thank you.
Greece's most important contribution to WW2 is that they were the 1st country to win the Axis (Fascist Italy) as it's referred on the video pretty accuratelly. The battle of Crete was also very important as the Cretans fought really hard. This had a result as Nazis delayed in Crete and tried to invase Russia during the heavy winter instead of the middle of the summer as they wanted to. Russian weather conditions, together with the exhaustion of the Battle of Crete, made the task of the Red Army easier.
They did it with WW1 vintage weapons and arms they stole from Italian Armories.It;s never ever mentioned. The the war started the begining of Sept 1939 October 28,1940 way way more that a year away.All Weapons the Greek ordered never came through because of the war
Because the hypocrisy stinks to high tax haven! - these same hypocrites "support" a bunch of bulgaro-skopjianovski leftovers from Tito's former Yugoslavia...
and their betrayal is just as bad as the the curse of the judeo-roman fairy tales which is still probably the biggest disaster and treachery to Hellenism...
and as for "oxi day", it really is worth watching this video - at least go to 00:10:30... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5hfEBupAeo4.html
Its called hatred and jelousy simple they cant love what they admire the animal never thank the tamer if you look back in history our "friends" allways treat us cruel and try extinct us so its really nothing new
maggie t ~ Great question! The Hero's of a mere generation ago,. fighting & holding back dictorial regimes; changing the course of a dark history,. Now relegated to work slaves by the countries promoting their war campaign of world domination; along with the power of banks manipulating them from the countries that most benefited the result of their heroism Great question,.
Makes you sad when you see what our uncestors did shed their blood so we can be free allways in the course of history and now we have these clowns the traitors polititians that treat our blessed country like this just for money
Actually it was more like Italian ambassador: *gives the ultimatum and says that if Greece won't comply then there would be war* Metaxas: "then it is war" Then he ambassador tried to make him reconsider and Metaxas said "No" Also the "ochi" (no) was said many times in his speech to the Greek people and the people of Greece said it too.
I am soo proud I was borne GREEK EVEN THOUGH I WAS BORNE I AFRICA MY ROOTS ARE GREEK UNTILI DIE ZHTO TO ETHNOS ELLADA AGAPHM3NI MOU H PATRIDA MOU SE AGAPAO POLLLY 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
Επιτέλους! Μια καλή προσπάθεια από την ομογένεια, θετική προς την Εθνική μας εικόνα. Και μια παράκληση - σταματήστε την Βάρνταλος από το να κάνει ταινίες για την Ελλάδα. Τα καταφέρνουμε και μονάχοι μας να γινόμαστε ρεζίλι - δεν θέλουμε βοήθεια!
We were the one who stopped the Persians and we were the one who stopped hitler. Time and time again we have saved Europe's ass but when we are not at war we are disregarded and forgotten.
The are 3 acts; the Oxi from Metaxas, the Greek defence in Epeirus, Albania, Crete and elsewhere and of course the humbling Greek resistance against all odds. Greeks, British and Russians defeated the Nazis. Proud of my nation. Oxi to fascism.
@Philip Manousakis βασικα......η ναζιστική Γερμανία δεν έχει καμία σχέση με την σημερινή Γερμανία.... επίσης δεν μας εκμεταλλεύονται οικονομικά μόνο και μόνο επειδή υπάρχει ένα πολεμικό παρελθόν μεταξύ μας όπως πιστεύουν όλοι οι Έλληνες.....αντ' αυτού το κάνουν γιατί θέλουν να επωφεληθούν από την κατάρευση της οικονομίας μας(και άλλων χωρών)....και ας είμαστε ρεαλιστές και η Ελλάδα άμα είχε την ίδια οικονομία με την σημερινή Γερμανία θα κάναμε τα ίδια μπορεί και χειρότερα
for more information, on " ... WHY THE GREEKS?” please visit following web page sites.google.com/site/flagenglish/-why-the-greeks-1 and ... WHY THE GREEKS? - The BEST COLLECTION of PODCASTS and RU-vid VIDEOS for sites.google.com/site/flagenglish/-why-the-greeks---the-best-collection-of-podcasts-and-youtube-videos-for === Whenever we speak of ancient Greece and the achievements of their civilization, we inevitably find ourselves asking the question “Why the Greeks?” What was it that led this numerically small people of the Mediterranean to emerge first from the Archaic stage, in which all other ancient peoples were at a standstill, and strive towards the accomplishments of the Classical period? To explain the singularity of ancient Greek civilization, we identify something that no other people had at the time as the baseline value of the ancient Greeks: the capacity to question. That is to say, while the predominant values of other peoples could be summed up in the view that “we must hand down to our children the world we inherited from our forefathers,” the ancient Greeks were the first to challenge this perception, by submitting to judgment those ideologies and convictions that had been passed on to them. This is the common starting point for philosophy and democracy. But such questioning at the time, unlike today, was far from the norm; it could not have appeared on its own, as it presupposes an inner tendency of people to wish to surpass certain limits. And this disposition for transcendence goes hand-in-hand with the element of competition: the desire to be tested, to confront, change, overturn and improve. In such a context, extrapolating our thoughts, one could say that a key concept for understanding and explaining ancient Greek civilization isthe idea of agon (struggle, contest, competition). Thus, questioning and agon were part of a single viewpoint, an overall life stance, which pervaded all manifestations of ancient Greek life, permeated all activities and was the driving force behind all expression of culture. In ancient Greek society, the concept of agon underlay the view that anything can be achieved as the result of effort, healthy rivalry and noble competition. Often called the "birthplace of civilisation", Ancient Greece heralded numerous advances in philosophy, science, engineering and mathematics which have shaped our understanding of the modern world. Western civilization has been influenced by many cultures, but his birth took place in ancient Greece. Apart from philosophers such as Aristotle and Socrates, Olympian gods, the beginnings of democracy and conquerors such as Alexander the Great, Greece brought as a contribution to mankind cool ideas that enriched the art of architecture and construction. Our hearts have been moved by the tragedies of Aeschylus and Euripides. Our minds have been opened by the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides. Our understanding of the world and our place in it has been expanded by Socrates and Aristotle. Most of all, we’re indebted to Greece for the most precious of gifts -- the truth, the understanding that as individuals of free will, we have the right and the capacity to govern ourselves. For it was here, 25 centuries ago, in the rocky hills of this city, that a new idea emerged. Demokratia. Kratos -- the power, the right to rule -- comes from demos -- the people. The notion that we are citizens -- not servants, but stewards of our society. The concept of citizenship -- that we have both rights and responsibilities. The belief in equality before the law -- not just for a few, but for the many; not just for the majority, but also the minority. These are all concepts that grew out of this rocky soil. Of course, the earliest forms of democracy here in Athens were far from perfect. The rights of ancient Athens were not extended to women or to slaves. But Pericles explained, “our constitution favors the many instead of the few…this is why it is called a democracy.” Athenians also knew that, however noble, ideas alone were not enough. To have meaning, principles must be enshrined in laws and protected by institutions, and advanced through civic participation. And so they gathered in a great assembly to debate and decide affairs of state, each citizen with the right to speak, casting their vote with a show of hands, or choosing a pebble -- white for yes, black for no. Laws were etched in stone for all to see and abide by. Courts, with citizen jurors, upheld that rule of law. Politicians weren’t always happy because sometimes the stones could be used to ostracize, banish those who did not behave themselves. But across the millennia that followed, different views of power and governance have often prevailed. Throughout human history, there have been those who argue that people cannot handle democracy, that they cannot handle self-determination, they need to be told what to do. A ruler has to maintain order through violence or coercion or an iron fist. There’s been a different concept of government that says might makes right, or that unchecked power can be passed through bloodlines. There’s been the belief that some are superior by virtue of race or faith or ethnicity, and those beliefs so often have been used to justify conquest and exploitation and war. But through all this history, the flame first lit here in Athens never died. It was ultimately nurtured by a great Enlightenment. It was fanned by America’s founders, who declared that “We, the People” shall rule; that all men are created equal and endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights. The basic longing to live with dignity, the fundamental desire to have control of our lives and our future, and to want to be a part of determining the course of our communities and our nations -- these yearnings are universal. They burn in every human heart.
Why nobody is mentioning the Creator of that COURAGE,THE CREATOR OF THAT GREEK SPIRIT,IOANNIS METAXAS,THE MAN THAT SAID OXI,LONG LIVE TO IOANNIS METAXAS
My grandparents hid 3 Jews in their Athens home for the duration of the war. They fed them and bought them clothes. They became a part of our family. Afterwards they moved to Israel, settled down and had families. There are generations alive today because of my grandparents and I am so proud of the stand they took to save these lives.
antegeia666 Μόνο οι Ηγέτες λένε όχι, ο λαός όσα όχι και να πει ο Ηγέτης αποφασίζει μεταπολιτευτικό κόκκινο σκουπίδι. Σκασμός τώρα και το πούλο μπετόστοκε.
That wasn't an act of courage but of ignorance. Greeks are great in many things but economic education is not of them. Greece collapsed because it was the only developed country out of the top 100 in economic freedom (130th). That would be understandable (no one is perfect) if we didn't refuse to reform. When you refuse to reform the system that bankrupted you, you are asking for trouble
Even though Greek army resisted and finally won facist Italy at October 1940 after the OXI day, the Nazis achieved to invase Greece through the Greek-Bulgarian borders, as long as Bulgaria was friendly to nazis at that time. Despite the German occupation, Greeks kept resisting. The stronger resistance became from the Greek communists who fought all together under the Greek People's Liberation Army. Of course, many citizens who were not communists joined the army, as the wanted to help Greece fighting back. Needless to say, that even a small number of Italians soldiers, after losing the Greek-Italian war, joined the Greek People's Liberation Army to help with their experience and knowledge. The resisted till the end of war and after that, all these "great" leaders of the past, Churchill etc helped to destroy this army because they had claim too much gun power. Greek communists was arrested, tortured, or killed. Even Napalm bombs were used to destroy them. What I really want to say is that i'm tired of pompous words from Greece's "allies" when Greece has suffered a lot because of them. Till now.
Now now, what really happened to the Greek communists after the war was they started an immediate war in Greece to take over for Communism. It involved Communists kidnapping children and forcing them to become soldiers. It was a war nearly lost because of the weakened condition of Greece whose population was starved under Nazi occupation,
@@stevek8829 No my friend it was that backstabbing bastard Churchill who created the Greek civil war by interfering in Greece. He rejected the Greek forces that fought the Germans in preference of the Greek collaborators and the pro Nazi, so called "Greek Royal Family." This crawling lizard was not about to allow Greece to have democratic elections as this mutant plasma wanted Greece under British influence.
Wow I couldn’t stop crying. Υιαγια is 100 and is in her final days. Her roots are Cretan. They lived in Chios and my παππού was part of the ragtag brigade that breathed ΟΧΙ into action. My dad would not have been born if πάππου Δημήτρη didn’t return. He had to sell candles outside his namesake church in Thessaloniki in order to afford the καράβι σπίτι. Ζήσαμε λέει η Γιαγιά. She never received the 100 year President letter. Is that automatic or you apply ?
The video is good but we MUST say that the ΟΧΙ was said by a dictator and NOT by a prime minister! He didn't say no for democracy but for the freedom of the Hellenic nation!
We have to say that the OXI said by Greeks... The dictator couldn't do anything else except to communicate this oxi to all over the WORLD. ALSO each time we had didactorism we was in better way than with nowadays democracy, why? Because there are no democracy now in the planet. The art of politics is to make you believe that you have rights and you are free.... But free in democracy was only ancient Athenians. Macedons had Kingdom with kings. Spartans the same only Athenians had democracy at its best. Now we are all slaves under a worldwide king... The Money King
Metaxas was germanophil,but the king was Anglophile,and it was well known that greek people wouldn't take it sitting down, nobody liked war,but NOBODY WAS TO SORENDER TO GERMANY.
And who told you that dictatorship is by meaning bad. It's just another kind of government, one very usual at that time in Europe and all over the world. Maybe it was the most appropriate system of government at that time. Don't be ungrateful. Understand the historical era you are talking about. It's like saying, Metaxa was a dictatorship so apriori it was bad for Greece...
