71 years today since the Great Greek NO to the Fascists

Europe is stuffed full of anniversaries to heroic stands against tyrannies. It is Europe's tragedy that we seem condemned again and again to have to repeat such often bloody sacrifices.

The anniversary today of the Great Greek NO to the ruthless tyrants Mussolini and Hitler in 1940, read also here, cannot but fail to prove far more poignant than usual, given the deliberate oppression of recent months and the entirely pointless outcome of the Brussels' meeting that the seventeen heads of the eurozone states fittingly concluded in the mid-week middle of the night!