On the night of the 1967 coup, Pattakos sends tanks from Goudi onto the streets of Athens.
find and neutralize enemies
(What enemies, you idiots...)
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at the same time
Ladas, head of the ESA, arrests nearly 10,000 people and locks them up.,
others at the racecourse in Faliro,
others in Philadelphia at the old AEK stadium
and others at Karaiskaki
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Among those arrested, apart from leftists
Glezo,
Ilias Iliou,
Kyro et al.,
arrest and
the then prime minister, Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, who was right-wing from birth,
the other right-wing Panagiotis Papaligouras,
the leader of the opposition, George Papandreou
his son Andreas
and many others
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Once this task is completed, the three leaders,
Papadopoulos,
Pattakos and Makarezos
with the tanks having reached outside the palace grounds in Tatoi,
They go to the king, Constantine the Younger, and ask him for legal recognition.
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Konstantinos played hard to get, but as soon as they suggested the Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Konstantinos Kollia, for prime minister, he agreed.
agreed
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However, because there was pressure from abroad to abolish the constitution in Greece,
the junta decided to set up a committee for a new constitution that would be in line with their own views.
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Finally, a committee was formed to deal with the bad times,
He drafted a constitution for the bad times.
they handed it over to the illiterate colonels, and they, because they did not understand Christ
they discarded it and presented one of their own inspiration
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The main source of inspiration for those idiots was that the army would be something like a fourth branch of government.
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A court would also be established, whose members would be appointed by the junta.
which would decide which party has the right to exist and which does not, based on political beliefs
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and a bunch of other nonsense that is not worth writing down.
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The situation now was that they were trying to present all this as a democratic shift by the junta.
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In fact, they claimed that they consulted the constitution with letters from citizens....
more direct democracy you die, i.e. (if you didn't die in some dungeon in Bouboulinas)
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Anyway, with all that, Pattakos boasted that 5,000,000 «positive» responses had been sent...
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Thus, on August 2, 1968, a referendum was announced in the Government Gazette A' 170.
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the electorate would respond with YES or NO
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Before the election, the YES propaganda reached the current propaganda of excellence.
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So today—Sunday, September 29, 1968—a referendum is being held.
with the stakes being
if the Greeks agree with the junta constitution
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but in essence—and this is how they presented it—it was,
if the Greeks agree and approve the junta
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We are only in the first year of the junta, with almost 10,000 political prisoners who had no right to vote.
Consider what conditions would prevail at polling stations.
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In the end, the result was
Registered users: 6,516,285
5,048,904 votes were cast.
received:
YES
4,638,466 i.e. 92.21%
NO
391,923 i.e. 7,79%
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triumph!
With over 92%, Greek citizens approved the junta.
In other words, the junta in Greece now had popular support.
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It was a result that the junta made their slogan, trumpeting it everywhere,
they advertised it
type,
The people wanted the junta, they need it, and they are with it.
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in less than a month, on the death of Georgios Papandreou,
the funeral turned into a huge anti-dictatorship demonstration with many arrests and endless beatings
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The day after the funeral, newspapers publish a statement from the junta:
«Unfortunately, it will take a long time for the Greek people to be properly educated and disciplined so that the nation is not destroyed.»
