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Cartoon of World Powers Policing Greece
Original caption: 1897: A political cartoon satirizing the trouble that the world's powers (England, Austria, Russia, Germany, Italy, and France), are having in dealing with Greece. Greece is represented as a small boy in traditional costume while the other countries are represented as huge policemen. The cartoon is labeled, "A small job for six, big policemen."

Zeus10 wrote:Ju thane nje dite qe ju jeni Helenet, jua krijuan shtetin para se ""helenet"" te fitonin ne terren kunder turqve, ju mesuan gjuhen qe ishte vetem nje karrikaturre e shemtuar e gjuhes se vertete dhe voula ja ku eshte Greqia, nje kopje e sajuar e te shkuares.

“During the nineteenth century the warlords and brigand chieftains were gradually brought to heel under the authority of the Government at Athens, and in time most Greeks came to believe that they were, in fact, the same as the Ancient Greeks. The seventeen hundred years or so between the Emperor Hadrian and the outbreak of the Revolution in 1821 came to be looked upon as a regrettable, even shameful interlude in the country’s history. If in any respect Greece did not appear to be a fully mature Western European state with all the appurtenances of national culture and identity, the blame could always be put on the past and especially on the Turks. IN 1830 the German historian Fallmerayer published a theory that the Ancient Greek population had been outsted by Slavic immigrants in the early middle ages, and that the Modern Greeks were mainly of Slavic race. Fallmerayer’s ideas were looked upon as a deadly heresy, and the supposed identity of the ancient and modern Greeks became a question of intense political feeling. Innumerable measures were introduced to emphasize the link with the remote past. Ancient names were resurrected or devised for the coinage, for officers of state, for ranks in the army and navy, for the law. The streets of Athens were named after the famous and obscure men of antiquity whose names have been handed down. It became customary to call Greek children after ancient heroes in preference to saints. Few signs were allowed to remain in Greece to show that the country once contained a large Turkish minority. The minarets and mosques were destroyed. The acropolis of Athens was stripped of everything but its ancient remains and rendered a lifeless desert. The marvelously impressive Frankish tower which had stood at the entrance to the Acropolis for hundreds of years was knocked down without regret. An interesting structure on the top of the pillars of the temple of Olumpian Zeus, apparently the hermitage of some Byzantine stylite, was removed as being non-ancient and therefore not respectable. Only shortage of money prevented the Pantheon from being ‘restored’ and rebuilt as part of the campaign to emphasize the alleged continuity of the Hellenic race. The Greek language is one of the undeniable links between Ancient and Modern Greece, representing a largely unbroken tradition. But that was no considered enough. The modern Greeks must learn to speak the language of Pericles, or if that seemed too difficult, at least a language purged of foreign accretions, with the ancient words repleacing the modern and a simplified ancient grammar. Generations of hapless school children were unsuccessfully inculated with different versions of ‘purified’ Greek*.
Attempts to replace the unwidely purified versions used in literature and for official purposes with the ordinary speech of the people, known as demotic, were regarded as blows directed against the feeble unity of the country and its life-giving national myth. There were riots in Athens following the publication in 1902 of a demotic version of the New Testament. Those who advocated the abandonment of the unequal struggle to popularize the pure language have been accused at various times of being traitors to the country and to the Church, dreemasons, and tools of the Panslavists. (…)In the twentieth century the battle for a more general use of demotic seemed to have been almost won when the Colonels, noone of whom is personally at home with the pure language, renewed the attempt to ‘correct’ the speech of the whole nation. In innumerable ways the life, culture, and politics of Modern Greece are still profoundly influenced by the men who inhabited the country in the ancient times.”
(~That Greece might still be Free~William St.Clair, 1972, page 350-352)

Sinopsis
El periodo fascista en Grecia (1936-1941) se considera uno de los periodos más oscuros de la historia moderna del país, y ha recibido muy poca atención por parte de historiadores o estudiosos hasta la fecha.

"La Grecia Fascista" es el primer libro en lengua castellana centrado exclusivamente en analizar en profundidad el régimen de Metaxas, el general que convirtió buena parte de los años 30 de Grecia en una especie de versión griega del Tercer Reich.

El autor analiza los fundamentos ideológicos del régimen, la política social, cultural y económica, y la complicada política exterior del país, en la que Metaxas tuvo que hacer malabarismos para no enfrentarse ni a su aliado ideológico natural, Alemania, ni al tradicional protector Gran Bretaña.

El fascismo griego acabó con la muerte de Metaxas, no sin antes entrar en el Olimpo de los héroes griegos gracias a su heroica victoria militar contra las tropas invasoras de Mussolini en la Guerra Greco-Italiana de 1940.

"La Grecia Fascista" ofrece una visión analítica y crítica de uno de los periodos más desconocidos aunque más interesantes de la historia moderna de Grecia.


Sobre el autor
Originario, por vía paternal, de la misma isla de Grecia que el propio Metaxas, Andreas Markessinis es un enamorado de la historia reciente de Grecia, interés por el que ha escrito decenas de artículos en numerosas revistas. Fue el responsable del proyecto Studia Hellenica, un proyecto online que ofrecía artículos, estudios y análisis en profundidad sobre la Grecia contemporánea. Es también el responsable del Metaxas Project, un proyecto online sobre Metaxas y el fascismo griego y está considerado el mayor especialista en lengua castellana sobre la época fascista en Grecia.

Periudhën fashiste në Greqi (1936-1941) është konsideruar si një nga periudhat më të errët të historisë moderne dhe ka marrë pak vëmendje nga historianë dhe studiues deri më tani.

"Greqia fashiste" është libri i parë u përqëndrua vetëm në analizimin e Kastilianisht në thellësi regjimit Metaxas, i përgjithshëm i cili u kthye shumë të '30 në Greqi në një lloj versioni grek i perandori e tretë.

Autori shqyrton bazat ideologjike e regjimit, politika sociale, jeta kulturore dhe ekonomike dhe politika e jashtme e komplikuar, e cila kishte Metaxas që të mos bëj marifete për t'u përballur apo kushteve natyrore aleati i saj ideologjik, Gjermani, apo mbrojtës tradicionale Britania e Madhe

Fashizmi grek përfundoi me vdekjen e Metaxas, por jo para se të hyjnë në Olimp malin e sajë heronj greke në fitoren e tyre heroike kundër trupave pushtuese të Musolinit në të luftës greko-italiane e 1940.

"Greqia fashiste" ju ofron një pikëpamje analitike dhe kritike të një prej periudhave më pak të njohur por shumë interesante në historinë moderne të Greqisë.


Rreth autorit
Fillimisht, nga babai, i njëjti ishull të Greqisë që Metaxas vetë, Andreas Markessinis është një dashnore të historisë së kohëve të fundit të Greqisë, kujdes se kush ka shkruar dhjetëra artikuj në revista të shumta. Ai ishte përgjegjës Studia projekt Hellenica, një projekt online featuring artikuj, studime dhe analiza në thellësi të Greqisë bashkëkohore. Ai është gjithashtu përgjegjës për Projektin Metaxas, një projekt online Metaxas greke dhe fashizmi dhe është konsideruar si specialist i shquar në Kastilianisht në epokën fashiste në Greqi