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Happy OHI Day!

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These machines kill fascists, just to quote Woody Guthrie.

Today we celebrate Ohi Day in Greece - ohi (pronounced oh-hee) means no in Greek and that is what Greek prime minister Metaxas answered on this day way back in 1940, when the Italian ambassador had the audacity to show up at his doorstep at 3AM and ask him to allow the Axis forces to enter Greece. Hell no! 🇬🇷 

 

Actually, the two spoke in French and what the Greek prime minister really said was “Alors, c’est la guerre!” (Then it is war!). Word got out and that same morning the people took the streets shouting “OHI”, so there you go.

 

The Greek andartes (guerillas) put up a fight and some very rough years followed, but our resistance disrupted Hitler’s timetable who was forced to fight the Russians in the freezing winter instead of the warmer months earlier in the year, so leaders like Churchill, Stalin, even Hitler’s chief of staff Wilhelm Keitel, credit Greece with contributing to Hitler’s defeat. 💪

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