November 25, 1973: George Papadopoulos Ousted in Military Coup

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🗓️ 25 November 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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The Greek Junta came to an end when George Papadopoulos was ousted in a military coup by Dimitrios Ioannidis, his partner from their coup to take over Greece years earlier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Thursday, November 25th, 2021.
0:07.0	On this day in 1973, Greece's president, George Papathopoulos, was ousted in a military coup.
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0:57.0	Today we'll be talking about George Papathopoulos, the leader of the Grecian junta, a military dictatorship, also known as the Colonel's regime.
1:07.0	Let's go back to November 25, 1973, to the presidential villa near Athens.
1:13.6	Soldiers stormed the building en masse and quickly apprehended the dictator George Papathopoulos.
1:29.3	Ironically, he was defeated by the same tactics he'd employed to seize power in the first place.
1:35.3	All the way back in 1944, the Axis powers withdrew from Greece during World War II.
1:43.3	The political right then used the resulting instability to take over.
1:48.7	The new government was intensely authoritarian.
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