Source: Atlas Obscura
On April 21st, 1967, a group of military officers known as the “Regime of the Colonels” staged a coup d’état in Greece. The Junta abolished civil liberties, dissolved political parties, instituted severe censorship and arrested most opposition.
This brutal Junta lasted for seven years until November 14th, 1973, when a few dozen students gathered at the Athens Polytechnic University to demonstrate against the Junta.
The students seized communications equipment and began transmitting anti-government messages.By November 16th, the group had grown to several thousand, not only students but workers and others…
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