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The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.

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Athens Polytechnic uprising

1973 student uprising against the Greek junta

The Athens Polytechnic uprising occurred in November 1973 as a massive student demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. It began on 14 November 1973, escalated to an open anti-junta revolt, and ended in bloodshed in the early morning of 17…
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Greek junta

Military rulers of Greece, 1967–1974

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 Centre Union was favoured to win.
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