Rare and Original Program

Βασίλειον της Ελλάδος

Νομαρχία Δωδεκανήσου

 

Πρόγραμμα Εορτασμού επί τη Δευτέρα Επέτειο της Επαναστάσεως της 21ης Απριλίου 1967

Εν Ρόδω τη 5 Απριλίου 1969

 

Kingdom of Greece

Prefecture of the Dodecanese

 

Celebration Program

on the Second Anniversary of the Revolution of April 21, 1967

Rhodes on April 5, 1969

 

Dimensions of the Program:  63 cm x  47 cm

The Greek Junta or Regime of the Colonels was a right-wing military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974. On 21 April 1967, a group of colonels overthrew the caretaker government a month before scheduled elections which Georgios Papandreou’s Center Union was favored to win. The dictatorship was characterized by policies such as anti-communism, restrictions on civil liberties, and the imprisonment, torture, and exile of political opponents. It was ruled by Georgios Papadopoulos from 1967 to 1973, but an attempt to renew its support in a 1973 referendum on the monarchy and gradual democratization was ended by another coup by the hardliner Dimitrios Ioannidis, who ruled it until it fell on 24 July 1974 under the pressure of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, leading to the Metapolitefsi (political changeover), democracy and the establishment of the Third Hellenic Republic.