Today is March 28 historical and important events happened for our country, but also for him People.
So let’s go back to the page of Time’s calendar to see what happened like today…
845
The Vikings occupy Paris, led by Ragnar Lodbrok. To leave, the king of the Franks, Charles the Bald, gives them three tons of silver, a colossal amount for the time.
1821
Athanasios Diakos, leader of Greek rebels, arrives at the Prophet Ilias of Livadia and demands the surrender of the city from the commander of Hasan Aga.
1871
The Paris Commune, a form of socialist government, is established, lasting until May 28, 1871.
1939
The Spanish Civil War ends, with the capture of Madrid by General Franco’s forces.
1969
George Seferis embellishes the junta with his famous statement on BBC radio.
On March 28, 1969, the Nobel laureate poet Giorgos Seferis (1900-1971) decides to break his silence and speak openly once morest the junta of colonels. He tapes a statement, in which, among other things, he sounds the alarm on the military regime for the tragedy it was leading Greece to.
The tape arrives clandestinely in London and on the same day his statement is broadcast by the Greek Service of the BBC, while it is relayed by the Paris radio station and Deutsche Welle.
The Seferis Declaration
It’s been a while since I made the decision to stay out of local politics. I have tried to explain it before, this does not mean at all that I am indifferent to our political life.
So, from those years until now, I have generally stopped touching on such subjects. On the other hand, what I published until the beginning of 1967, and my subsequent attitude (I have not published anything in Greece since freedom was silenced) showed, it seems to me quite clearly, my thinking.
However, for months now, I feel in myself and around me, more and more imperatively, the duty to say something regarding our current situation. In all possible brevity, here is what I would say:
It has been two years since a regime has been imposed on us that is not at all contrary to the ideals for which our world and our people fought so brilliantly in the last world war.
It is a state of forced hibernation where, as many spiritual values as we have managed to keep alive, with pains and labors, they too are going to be drowned in the marshy stagnant waters. It would not be difficult for me to understand that such damages do not count for much to some people. Unfortunately, this is not the only risk.
Everyone has been taught and knows that in dictatorial situations, the beginning may seem easy, but tragedy awaits, inevitable, at the end. The drama of this ending torments us, consciously or unconsciously as in the ancient dances of Aeschylus. The longer the anomaly remains, the more the evil progresses.
I am a man of absolutely no political affiliation, and, I may say, I speak without fear and without passion. I see before me the precipice where the oppression that covered the place is leading us. This anomaly must stop. It is a National check.
Now I return to my silence. I beg God, not to bring me another time in a similar need to speak once more.
The Junta, clearly disturbed by this development, will remove from Seferis the title of honorary ambassador and the right to use his diplomatic passport. He will justify this act with the argument that his statement was broadcast by the radio of the Soviet Union and therefore constitutes anti-national propaganda. Her friendly press will also join the dance, which will write that Seferis “sold Cyprus to get the Nobel Prize”, while describing him as a secret communist and a mischievous instrument of foreign governments.
1985
Areopagite Christos Sargetakis is elected president of the Republic, with a marginal majority of 180 votes.
Source: sansimera.gr
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