How the Greek Junta Took Power - Cold War DOCUMENTARY

Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video on how the military junta took power in Greece.

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[TheSourcealpha]

If a Martian completely oblivious to concepts such as "parliamentary democracy", "army", "colonel", "king" etc. were to watch this video, he would -correctly- come to the conclusion that the position of the "American ambassador" is the ultimate authority in Greece.

[panajotispanajotatos]

Don't think about the mispronunciations. You still did a good job. Great as always. Greetings from Corfu, Greece.

[jliller]

I'm fascinated by how often military juntas are lead by Colonels, not Generals.

[fightingfalcon]

They also were known as the "Dictatorship of the Colonels"

[trucktrucker]

2:06 This is not Konstantinos Karamanlis in the "TV".He is Ioannis Zigdis.
12:21 Actually Rallis' message to the commander of the 3rd army corps, never arrived to him, because the officers that received that message were loyal to Papadopoulos, and not only they didn't inform their commander, but they arrested him also.

[oldesertguy]

Gotta love that comment about the royal security being worried about pistols when tanks were parked outside.

[ΌνομαΕπώνυμο-οτ]

Those same political dynasties of Papandreou and Karamanlis now passed on to Mitsotakis family are still the plague of our country

[saltyroe]

An important element of the coups was that on the night of the coups, a squad of infantry was sent to each police station in Greece. At each police station, the gun registration records were pulled and police officers escorted the soldiers to each location with a gun and confiscated them. By dawn there was not a registered gun in public hands . Shotguns were eventually returned where the owner could prove a need like hunting or protection from predators.

[mikhailvtv]

Brilliant Series . I lived in Marrickville in Sydney which at one stage was/is a huge Greek suburb of Sydney Australia. Tables near the post office would have all these old Greek patriarchal characters re arguing Greek politics every day. Fueled by homemade retsina it was a cultural phenomenon that was part of Greekness

[ianlewis]

"You are being liberated, do not resist." -Random Soldier to the King.

[giasifman]

A man that isn't often mentioned in videos, or researches about the junta is Zoitakis, The Greek General at the time.Without the support of him Papadopoulos wouldn't have taken by force the power.

[madgoat]

As greek this is the best representation of the topic i have ever seen. Keep up the good work and do some follew up videos about this topic and the royal coup

[crakker]

Thank you for this video.This topic isn't covered much on YouTube or mainstream media.
U guys truly do an amazing job keep it up

[Cacciatore_Raccoglitore]

In Italy the city council is called junta (giunta) . Every time I hear junta I think my small town mayor has overtrowned a foreign president 😂

[ekmalsukarno]

On the topic of military juntas, can you also please make a video on the numerous on-and-off military governments that ruled over Thailand throughout the Cold War. Please accept my request. Thank you very much.

[akwakatsaka]

That’s a great video David !! Grats on doing a video on the Greek junta

[nikolaosgountelas]

Thank you for covering this. Like the estado novo in Portugal, I feel like the Junta is one of those forgotten dictatorships of Europe. I was born in Germany but both of my parents are Greek and have both lived in Greece for most of their life. Many of my relatives still live in Greece, but some also live in Germany and Switzerland. My grandma used to tell me about the Junta, because she had to flee the country. Her father who was in the Chorofylaki was imprisoned for supposedly having communist leanings (which he did not even have). I am still angered when people praised this horrible regime that failed at everything it tried to do. It practically destroyed Greece's relations with other countries for the time, it was build on baseless accusations of a communist takeover of Greece and accelerated the horrible situation in Cyprus that still lingers on today.

Love your videos. Keep up the good work.

[dorianphilotheates]

Thoroughly researched, objective, and well presented — bravo! (and not too shabby on the pronunciation of all those Greek names).👍🙂

[giannb]

Greece's geopolitical troubles and concerns from the Cold War remain the same today. Namely, the threat to Greece is from Turkey, (supposedly an ally!) not from "international communism" or from Russian revanchism. Most outsiders can't grasp this, and that is why you see so many people care about occupied Palestine or occupied Ukraine, but not occupied Cyprus...

[elenasargent]

Thank you for covering it in such a sensitive way, it is still quite a divisive subject, there are still some who call it a "revolution". It destroyed so many families with many being exiled and tortured by this regime or choosing self exile and those supporters still refuse to accept what happened. If you're ever in Athens you might want to visit the Museum of EAT-ESA which is one of the spaces where this torture happened and you can speak to survivors who work there