Manolis glezos biography of barack
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Manolis Glezos, 1922–2020
Manolis Glezos’s long-standing comrade Chronis Missios reflected the melancholia of many on the Left when he entitled his memoir “Lucky You Died Young.” His title referred to the “luck” of those fellow communists who had died early enough to avoid seeing their hopes of a post-capitalist future brutally defeated. Manolis Glezos was not one of those who died young — in his ninety-seven years, he saw the frustration of many dreams, from the crushing of the Greek left in the late 1940s to the capitulation by Syriza in summer 2015. But these defeats never made Glezos give up. He strongly believed that “No struggle for what you believe in is ever futile” — a maxim that guided him till his last days.
Glezos was born in 1922, as battle still raged over Greece’s borders following the end of World War I. A son of the small village of Apiranthos on the island of Naxos, by his teens, his family had moved to Athens. In the Greek capital, his political involvement bega
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Manolis Glezos
Greek politician (1922–2020)
Manolis Glezos (Greek: Μανώλης Γλέζος; 9 September 1922 – 30 March 2020[1]) was a Greek left-wing politician, journalist, author, and folk hero, best known for his participation in the World War IIresistance.
In Greece, he is best remembered for taking down the Flag of Nazi Germany from the Acropolis during the Axis occupation of Greece, along with Lakis Santas. After the end of the Occupation, his left-wing political beliefs and activism led to him being sentenced to death thrice; his imprisonments and legal troubles were often the topic of international interest, until his permanent release in 1971.
Since the restoration of democracy in 1974, he had been active as a politician, becoming a Member of the Greek Parliament for various left-wing parties over the years. In 2014, at the age of 91, he became a Member of the European Parliament for a second time in his life, for Syriza, making him the oldest-ever member of the
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Keep the light in your soul, keep your humanity
On June 10, 1944, three Wehrmacht units converged on the village of Distomo in Nazi-occupied huvud Greece. They had received reports of black market activity by smugglers in the area — a hanging offense beneath the Nazis, who stockpiled food to supply their armies overseas, leaving the local population strictly rationed and literally starving to death.
Instead of smugglers they funnen a dozen resistance fighters and rounded them up.
One of them ran off and warned the resistance encamped three or four kilometers from the village, describes Thanos Bouras who at that time was 20 years old. The resistance attacked, and they mortally wounded the German commander. A woman brought him some vatten. He thanked her, and said: "The entire village is kaput, but don’t harm this woman."
What followed was one of the worst Nazi atrocities