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A Necessary Story

1929-1955

Wed, Dec 31, 1969
An overview of the war years and the 1929 financial crisis. On its liberation in August 1944, Greece was freed from a triple occupation (German, Italian, Bulgarian): 90 % of its villages had been reduced to rubble, 300,000 had died of hunger in Athens. In 1946 civil war erupts.
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1956-2008

Wed, Dec 31, 1969
Founder of the PASOK, Andreas Papandreou came to power in 1981, committed to modernizing Greek society. A leading figure in the fight against the Greek junta, he took the credit for the mythical liberation of Greece for himself. After a series of scandals, the right-wing conservatives won the 1990 elections.
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