September 3

On August 16, 1974, at five minutes past nine in the evening,
lands at Elliniko Airport,
the plane that brought Andreas Papandreou to Greece after the fall of the junta
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It is a return that will radically change the history of Greece.
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But let's take things from the beginning.,
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But which principle?;
When Andreas fled to the US because Metaxas's thugs had beaten him up?;
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When Karamanlis invited him to return to Greece after a brilliant academic career in the US?;
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When Lada's ESA agents broke into his home in Kastri and threatened his son George?;
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when you say,
They stuck the revolver to the child's head and shouted at him:
«I'll kill you if you don't tell me where your father is.»
From the roof, Andreas' voice was heard:
«I surrender.».
He jumped onto the balcony. He stumbled and hurt his foot, and limping, he followed the soldiers.
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they took him to the detention center where he remained in solitary confinement for eight months
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This sparked an uproar in the US, mainly in academic circles,
even pressuring President Johnson
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Johnson waved his finger at Papadopoulos, who then ordered Andreas to be released and expelled from Greece.
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On January 16, 1968, Stylianos Pattakos himself handed Andreas his passport with irony.
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Andreas leaves Greece in a miserable state, frighteningly thin and pale in appearance.
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but the flame burns inside him
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He travels through various European cities and gives interviews in which he lambasts the junta.
and passes the buck to foreign governments,
essentially asking them to isolate the junta
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He eventually ends up in Sweden, where he becomes a professor of economics at Stockholm University.
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but he didn't stick to his money and his good things
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establishes the Panhellenic Liberation Movement (P.A.K.)
and
traveled around the world trying to create a movement against the junta in Greece
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The junta members then found themselves in a difficult position many times due to the negative comments made by prominent academics against the junta.
and they paid Andreas back in kind.
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In November 1968, when his father died, Andreas asked to be allowed to come to Greece to bury his father.,
they denied it
that way
Only his wife, Margarita, and his 16-year-old son, George, came to say their final farewells to the old man, but they were accompanied by 1,000,000 people at the cemetery.
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A million people who turned the funeral into an anti-government demonstration with arrests and a lot of violence.
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But Andreas did not bow to the pettiness of the junta,
prohibited them from burying his father at public expense
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23 days after the fall of the junta,
in August 1974,
When Andreas descended the steps of the plane, reporters managed to ask him a question.
«Will you join the Karamanlis government?»
Andreas's response was:
«Only under certain conditions»
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Karamalis had formed, or supposedly formed, a government of national unity.
and such was the unanimity and unity that, when asked the same question, the then Minister of National Defense, Evangelos Averoff,
responded sarcastically:
«Oh, not Andreas in the government.».
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for the right, then Andreas
it was,
what it is today for the average Greek right-winger,
Jason Apostolopoulos
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type,
I am fed up with your democracy,
we said,
But let's not put Democrats in the government, and let's definitely not put women in there.
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But the wave stirred up by Andreas' return was tidal.
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He filled the airport and, for days afterwards, its courtyard in Kastri.
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the then leaders of the centrist union tried to bring him around in a way,
but
Andreas had made his decisions; he wanted to form a new party, CONVICTED
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Are you feeling well?;
Now that we have a party ready
(his father's party)
Ready executives
(the dinosaurs that his father had as ministers)
Ready mechanism
(the leaders of the center union, each of whom had their own dependencies on the executives of the center union)
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What experiments will you conduct?;
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But Andreas knew that if he didn't create something of his own, he would be held hostage by the dinosaurs.,
who must constantly walk a tightrope between them and maintain balance
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So,
end of August,
went out into his garden in Kastri, where the young people with the pitchforks spent their days and nights,
long hair and bell-bottom pants, and he confided in him
– «We will create a new political movement for disadvantaged Greeks...»
– us?;
– WE…!!!
– and who will be the executives and agents?;
– YOU
– US????;
– YES, AND ANYONE ELSE WHO WANTS TO JOIN, a party open to all democratic people,
– a party FROM WITHIN THE HEART OF THE PEOPLE THEMSELVES
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That's how things turned out, and we arrived at the founding declaration of PASOK, which will take place on September 3.
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Why at 3?;
Because it is a symbolic day, on September 3, 1843, the people forced King Othon to,
to grant a constitution and, by the grace of God, to become constitutional.
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September 3rd is considered the beginning of democracy in the country.
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So today, September 3, 1974, under the cloudy skies of Athens,
Andreas arrives a little late at the King George Hotel.«
which was full of journalists and young people,
with a simple leather top,
who took it off and was left wearing a white shirt without a tie
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He took the stage and began presenting the «Declaration of Principles of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement.»
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for executives presented something completely unknown to the general public,
who entered with thirst and ignorance of danger, to change the world
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his father's dinosaurs (most of them) snubbed him
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This is the birth certificate of PASOK, which will change the history of the country.
and
which, of course, has nothing to do with this monstrosity that is presented today as PASOK.

Author of the article:

Yannis Golias