In what was supposed to be a day of nationalist propaganda, with military parades across the Greek territory (a remnant of military dictatorships past) to celebrate the “national day”, things have taken quite a different turn. In Thessaloniki, the Greek president of democracy was  forced to leave the military parade under the constant booing of hundreds [...]

A few minutes ago the Greek president of democracy (Karolos Papoulias) was forced to leave his post watching the fascist-inspired military parade commemorating the Greek-Italian war of 1940. Papoulias stood at the scene stunned, being booed by people, many of which occupied the ground in front of the officials’ stand, and were blocked off by [...]