REVOLUTION OF APRIL 21st 1967,
The Rising PHOENIX
of GREEK POSTS
30 Aug. 1967
Official Set of 3 Stamps
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Greek military junta of 1967–1974
The Phoenix rising from its flames and the silhouette of the soldier bearing a rifle with fixed bayonet was the emblem of the Junta. On the header the word
The Phoenix and the silhouette of the soldier bearing a bayonetted rifle was the emblem of the Junt.
The Greek military junta of 1967–1974, alternatively "The Regime of the Colonels" (Greek : Το καθεστώς τωνΣυνταγματαρχών, To kathestos ton Syntagmatarhon), or in Greece "The Junta", (English pronunciation: /ˈdʒʌnta/ or /ˈhʊntə/; Greek Χούντα,[ˈxuda]) and "The Seven Years" (Greek : Η Επταετία, I eptaetía) are terms used to refer to a series of right-wing military governments that ruledGreece from 1967 to 1974. Rule by the Greek military started in the morning of 21 April 1967, with a coup d'état led by a group of colonels, and ended in July 1974.
Georgios Papadopoulos
President of the Hellenic Republic
Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos (Greek : Γεώργιος Παπαδόπουλος) (5 May 1919 – 27 June 1999) was the head of the military coup d'état that took place in Greece on 21 April 1967 and leader of the military government that ruled the country from 1967 to 1974. Papadopoulos was aColonel of Artillery. During World War II, he had initially fought against the Italian 1940 invasion and then he became a Nazi collaborator in theSecurity Battalions, and in the postwar years he received intelligence training in the US and became a CIA agent. He held dictatorial power in
Early life and military career
Papadopoulos was born in Elaiohori, a small village in the Prefecture of Achaea in Peloponnese to local school teacher Christos Papadopoulos and his wife Chrysoula. He was the eldest son and had two brothers, Konstantinos and Haralambos. Upon finishing High School in 1937, he enrolled in the Scholi Evelpidon Officer
Papadopoulos' biographical notes, that were published as a booklet by supporters in 1980, mention that he attended a Civil engineering course at the Polytechneion but did not graduate.
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