Tens of thousands of people in Greece have been reminded with rallies on the 46th anniversary of the student uprising against the former Greek military dictatorship. In Athens, police estimated that more than 20,000 people were moving through the city center yesterday. At the rallies also took the former Greek left Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, as television recordings showed.
Thousands of predominantly young people also took to the streets in other cities in the country. Fearing riots, the police mobilized more than 5,000 police and police officers in Athens alone. The demonstrations went peacefully, the police said.
The student uprising of 1973 is regarded in Greece as the culmination of the resistance against the Obristenjunta (1967-1974). On November 17, students entrenched themselves in the Athens Polytechnic. With a self-made radio station, they called people to revolt against the dictatorship.
As a result, the military intervened with force – a tank broke through the entrance of the Polytechnic, the rebellion was crushed bloody, there were dead and injured. The junta of the colonels fell eight months later in July 1974.
