Andreas Papandreou died on this day

On this day in 1996 Andreas Papandreou died...
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there are thousands of things one can write about Andreas...
when I got into the process I was lost...
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not a post but an encyclopedia I'm filling up.
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I have decided to dwell on what changed the course of the history of the country and society...
his first four years in office....
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before 1981 Greek society was something between the Iran of Ayatollah Khomeini,
Putin's Russia
and the bananas of South Africa...
(sort of)
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after the 1981 election that changed...
democracy really came to the country...
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things that had been a given in Western Europe for decades, in Greece they were implemented from 1981 onwards.
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until then the gendarme would enter the café and the old men would get up to sit down...
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gender equality was established
(until then the official Greek state considered the 2 sexes equal...)
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legalised civil marriage
(until then you could NOT get married unless you went to church...)
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the dowry is abolished (until then the dowry was an institution)
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consensual divorce is introduced after gender equality
(until then there was no such thing...)
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the retention of a woman's maiden name after marriage was legislated
(until then the woman was obliged to take her husband's name)
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the equality of spouses as regards parental status was established
(until then it did NOT exist)
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the humiliating adultery law was abolished (until then the police used to drag people to the station with sheets)
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many laws from the Metaxas and civil war era were abolished, such as teddy bears, espionage, etc.
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the monotone writing system was introduced
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abolished the uniform dress of the students, the notorious aprons.
(here what to say)
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the envelopes were abolished
(until then, in every police station there were envelopes in every police station, stating the political, religious and communal beliefs)
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permission was given for the political refugees of the Democratic Army to return to Greece.
(even in 1975 Karamanlis was asking for 1002 things, to return the political refugees and to get back the Greek citizenship....Menelaos Loudemis' confrontation with Karamanlis at that time is historical...)
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was the recognition of National Resistance
(until then, those who had fought the Germans in the mountains for the official Greek state were considered bandits...)
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the NHS (national health system) was created
(what can I say...)
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in labour law, for the first time, accidents at work are recognised and compensated
while
the five-day working week is extended
(HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA)
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I will not talk about foreign policy or the economic situation of society...
I will not say about the treatment of the state to the citizen
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THE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY WAS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF DEMOCRACY IN A DEEPLY BACKWARD STATE.
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Yes, I know.
then he got sick, lost contact, mistakes were made and there were mistakes and failures and various fraudsters took over and the story continued...
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What I'm saying is that especially the first 4 years (3.5 net years) saw world-historical changes in the country and in society...
things that were taken for granted throughout the civilized world,
no one here had done it by then
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Andreas Papandreou and his first government in 1981 was,
that it was the Renaissance for Europe,
after the Middle Ages
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PS. as for the discussion about whether Andreas belongs to PASOK-KINAL or any other party
I will say that Andrew belongs ONLY to history...
now
are entitled to rely on it,
ONLY THOSE who continue his political philosophy
that is next to the worker
in the poor
to the battered
in the small and medium
and not
THOSE who collaborate openly and secretly with the right and the Mitsotakis
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PS2. the picture is from August 1975 when Andreas testifies as a witness for the prosecution in the trial of the junta of the April dictatorship

Author of the article:

Yannis Golias