28th October 1940: Anniversary of OXI

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As Winston Churchill said:Â

Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.

It has been two years since the beginning of World War II and there seemed to be noÂ significant threat to the Axis powers. AfterÂ the early successes of theÂ war most of the continental areas of EuropeÂ secured, the only actualÂ threat for Nazi Germany remained the UK and the neutralÂ until then Soviet Union, mostly because of the Molotovâ€“Ribbentrop Pact (NAP) which theÂ twoÂ countries signed a year earlier in August 1939.Â With the mainland ofÂ Europe secured, the Axis powers continued the war against Great Britain inÂ North Africa, pushing the British troops back toÂ Egypt. Until that moment,Â the Axis powers had never been pushed back norÂ defeated, and that wasÂ about to change.Â

Fascist Italy made plans to invade Greece through occupied Albania. AfterÂ numerous and unholy provocations, Italy decided to declare war on Greece by demanding the surrender of the country until 6 a.m. of 28th October 1940. The Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas rejected the ultimatum by sayingÂ So we have war. The Greek press transferred the news of the rejection in the ultimatum and the Greeks with one word said OXI. The people celebrated the news of war and thousands of men join the army in order to defend the country.

At the beginning of the war, the Italian forces made some progress into Greek land, however theÂ determination of the Greek army wasÂ a decisive factor in the course of the war.Â The Greek forces stopped theÂ advancing enemy troops and after a successfulÂ defense, the General Staff ordered a GeneralÂ Counter-offensive, which led the Greek forcesÂ to advance 30 to 80Â kilometers deep into Albanian territory. Â

At the same time, Nazi Germany made plans to invade the Soviet Union, but after theÂ humiliating defeat of Italy, left them no choiceÂ but to help its ally andÂ secure the flanks. In order to do that the invasionÂ on Soviet Union hadÂ to be postponed. InÂ 6th April 1941, the German assault began against Greece from the Bulgarian borders. The Greek fortress of Roupel in Macedonia-Thrace regions,, well known as METAXAS LINE,Â undertook the defense of the borders. For three days the German faced heavy losses and only a few fortress have been captured. However, despiteÂ the heroic Greek defense the Nazi forcesÂ brokeÂ through, after the defeat of Yugoslavia, which left the way to Thessaloniki open and the encirclement of the greek forces was imminent. After that there werent a significant forces to stop the invaders andÂ the continental regions of Greece fell a few weeksÂ later.

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The last stand ofÂ Greek forces took place on the island of Crete. Although, theÂ Battle of CreteÂ ended with the fall of theÂ island, the importance of the battle was crucial to theÂ outcome of the World War. The German paratroopers suffered heavy losses, which made itÂ impossible to use them against Soviet Union or anywhere else throughout theÂ entireÂ war.

The small Greece showed that the invincible until then Axis powers can be defeated!

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Happy Anniversary of NO - OXIÂ GreeceÂ
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Comments (27)

27 Oct 20 12:56

N4zGuL

27 Oct 20 13:16

Iphicratis

27 Oct 20 13:21

Constantine the Great

27 Oct 20 13:34

crazygeorge

27 Oct 20 13:42

El Greco

Î¿7

27 Oct 20 13:47

Urzael

27 Oct 20 16:16

BOZ KURT

Hail 28th October 1940

27 Oct 20 16:21

Komita

27 Oct 20 16:31

BAD MONKE

27 Oct 20 16:34

Pingvinek Ura

We learned nothing about it. We learned that the Italian Army was shit as always, and then the Germans went help them and went through everything. Thats it.

27 Oct 20 21:38

edited_player4

o69

27 Oct 20 23:05

tsigger

voted o7

27 Oct 20 23:39

Mpilanakis

28 Oct 20 00:26

Winston Hope Smith

No pasarÃ¡n! (or what ever the Greek equivalent is)

28 Oct 20 00:33

edited_player2

Î¿69

28 Oct 20 02:10

Raskolnikov

28 Oct 20 02:16

myrmidonas

28 Oct 20 03:00

Raiden

Some people back then fought and lost their lives in order for us today to be free! Today we should all be reminded of their sacrifise and never forget them!

28 Oct 20 04:06

Sun Zu

28 Oct 20 04:58

FonikoKoulouri

28 Oct 20 06:15

BOZ KURT

We learned that the Italian Army was shit as always?? The person that told u was on drugs?? 80mil against 10 mil!!! You forgot that the Romans had an empire!!!

28 Oct 20 07:22

Kemal your dadda

Greeks even sacrificed so that the British Allied forces could evacuate southern Greece. Note that: They knew they were losing yet they delayed the Germans from reaching southern greece as much as they could. Respect