34 Facts About Greek junta

Greek junta or Regime of the Colonels was a right-wing military dictatorship that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974.

The CIA and the Greek junta military began to work together closely, especially after Greece joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1952.

Greek junta has since claimed that he was trying to gain time to organise a counter-coup and oust the Junta.

Greek junta did organise such a counter-coup; however, the fact that the new government had a legal sanction, in that it had been appointed by the legitimate head of state, played an important role in the coup's success.

Greek junta was a well-known royalist and had even been disciplined under the Papandreou government for meddling in the investigation of the murder of MP Gregoris Lambrakis.

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Constantine hoped that international recognition and internal pressure between the two governments would force the Greek junta to resign, leaving the field clear for him to return triumphant to Athens.

Still, up until 1973, the Greek junta appeared in firm control of Greece, and not likely to be ousted by violent means.

Greek junta wrote in December 1969 that "a conservative estimate would place at not less than two thousand" the number of people tortured.

However, citizens lived in extreme fear, as any behaviour that the Greek junta disapproved of, coupled with the complete absence of any civil rights or freedoms, could easily result in torture, beatings, exile, imprisonment, or worse, and the labelling of the victims as anarcho-communists, or worse.

Remarkably, after some initial hesitation and as long as they were not deemed to be politically damaging to the Greek junta, Greek junta censors allowed wide access to Western music and films.

Greek junta wrote and arranged the album using an orchestra and a rock group combination, producing a rock opera which is considered a landmark of Greek rock.

Greek junta cultivated this relationship by appealing to them, calling them and cancelling all agricultural loans.

The Greek junta used to proudly announce these projects with the slogan: .

The Greek junta was so impressed with the manner in which their Italian counterparts were paving the way toward an Italian coup d'etat that, on 15 May 1969, Papadopoulos sent them a congratulatory message stating that "His Excellency the Prime Minister notes that the efforts that have been undertaken by the Greek National government in Italy for some time start to have some impact".

The first armed action against the Greek junta was Alexandros Panagoulis's failed attempt to assassinate George Papadopoulos, on 13 August 1968.

Greek junta is regarded as emblematic of the struggle to restore democracy.

Greek junta made a statement on the BBC World Service, with copies simultaneously distributed to every newspaper in Athens.

The Greek junta delayed the arrival of his remains to Corfu for four months, fearing public reaction and protests.

Greek junta is the only known anti-junta resistance activist to have sacrificed himself.

Greek junta is considered the precursor of later student protest, such as the Athens Polytechnic uprising.

Greek junta was arrested and tortured by the police, as he did not carry, on purpose, any papers on him that could identify him as a foreigner.

Pappas believed that since his fellow anti-Greek junta officers had been arrested, there was no more hope for a movement inside Greece.

Greek junta therefore decided to act alone in order to motivate global public opinion.

Greek junta mustered all the crew to the stern and announced his decision, which was received with enthusiasm by the crew.

Greek junta had declared at the time that he did not want the "Revolution" to become a "regime".

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Greek junta attempted to initiate reforms in 1969 and 1970 but was thwarted by the hardliners, including Ioannidis.

Greek junta was dissuaded when the hardliners renewed their personal allegiance to him.

Greek junta was confirmed in office after a controversial referendum, the results of which were not recognised by the political parties.

Greek junta furthermore sought the support of the old political establishment, but secured only the cooperation of Spiros Markezinis, who was appointed Prime Minister.

Ioannidis's heavy-handed and opportunistic intervention had the effect of destroying the myth that the Greek junta was an idealistic group of army officers with exactly the same ideals who came to save Greece by using their collective wisdom.

Papadopoulos and his Greek junta always claimed that the 21 April 1967 "revolution" saved Greece from the old party system.

Greek junta was now the de facto leader of a puppet regime composed by members some of whom were rounded up by Greek Military Police soldiers in roving jeeps to serve and others that were simply chosen by mistake.

In January 1975 the Greek junta members were arrested and in early August of the same year the government of Konstantinos Karamanlis brought charges of high treason and insurrection against Georgios Papadopoulos and nineteen other co-conspirators of the military Greek junta.

Many of his Greek junta-connected associates were assassinated in this time period.