The workers of LARCO, who are starting mobilizations, were mentioned among other things in an interview with the radio station “Lamia fm1”, the General Secretary of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoumbas, during his visit yesterday in Stylida, Fthiotida, during which the Bishop of Fthiotida, Simeon, offered him a frame in which he himself is depicted in earlier mobilizations with workers of LARCO.
Asked about this, Koutsoumbas said that this frame already adorns the party's offices in Perissos and added.
«It is a big struggle, the struggle of the workers of LARCO. We are on their side, I am always on their side. I have very important ties with the workers of LARCO since a very long time ago, since 1977, since the first big strike that lasted over 100 days and was successful. LARCO is a gold mine for our region, for our prefecture and for the whole of Greece. At a time when nickel prices have reached a high and LARCO could be profitable and not only live the 1500 workers who are in Larymna and elsewhere, such as in Kozani where LARCO has mines and factories. It could actually live the Greek economy and support it,» Koutsoumbas said.
Responding to a question about his visit to the «Old People's Home - Petri Foundation», Mr Koutsoubas met with 97-year-old Vasso Stamatiou, the last survivor of Auschwitz, expressed his emotion and stressed that ‘she was one of the few survivors because we know what this prison, this camp of Nazi criminals, was like, but also the other camps where life was not easy for her. And of course she had very difficult years afterwards. Because as she says in her book, when she returned to Greece in September 1945, she couldn't even find a job, because they said «the communist came“, whereas they had a different perception then, they thought that they would return to Greece and they would be waited for like heroes, as these people really were heroes, who gave their own lives, their youth to liberate our country from the occupier, from the Nazi fascist Germans at that time, from the concentration camps.
I had an extra reason, because my grandfather, Dimitris Koutsoumbas, who was a priest and teacher in the village of Velesotes Domokos in the prefecture of Fthiotida, was executed by the Germans in 1944. He was captured in the village, along with his son and others, he was imprisoned in the Gestapo in Lamia, tortured, then in the prison of Amfissa and executed in Golden of Amfissa in 1944. During the same period that Vaso Stamatiou was arrested, this great man whom I had the honour and pleasure to meet yesterday and whom I will definitely visit again, there is no way‘, said the Secretary General of the KKE KKE.
