Statements-tumult of Repoussi - Dimou on the Memorial Day of March 25

On the day of March 25, the "usual suspects" Maria Repoussi of DIMAR and Mr. Nikos Dimou from "River" provoke with inflammatory statements which cause the common sense.

A few days after her statement on Twitter, where she wrote: "Motorized tanks and fighter planes returning after four years in national parades. Right and All Greece, over cost", Mrs. Repoussi spoke to VIMA FM and expressed her opposition to the high cost of the parades.

"It makes an impression, that in conditions of austerity the government decides to revive battle tanks and warplanes in parades", said Mrs. Repoussi .
"A people must remember the past, but the way he remembers it, teaches and glorifies it, has to do with the identity of the state, the character and its policies. Those things are not neutral and under the circumstances in the country, I believe that there is a very powerful symbolism, which is militaristic" stressed MP of DIMAR.

She was also against to the student parades, claiming: "You know that it is an institution that comes from Metaxas and there is not in other countries - at least in other EU countries - and we need to think of it together; the way we glorify and remember our past".

Does really, Mrs. Repoussi worries for the cost of military marches, or is there something else behind it? Since she cares so much about the country's finances why she does not clarifies the case of the 'suspicious' NGOs which is reportedly involved?

Dimou questioned '21 and talked about atrocities of Greeks

His own "truth" for the Revolution of '21 gives the member of "river" Nikos Dimou in his article in protagon.gr.

According to Mr. Dimou if today, would had been published "a book with the true events of 21, would had been burned and the professor who would had teach it, would had lost his job".

He cites "some established historical truths" as he defines them.

Below, the article of Mr Dimou:

"The revolution started not by heroic "armatolous" and "thieves" (on the contrary, they were struggling and fighting as mercenaries for pay and loot during the riot, also) but by peaceful bourgeois merchants who lived outside of Greece. The movement started by the bourgeoisie but embraced by the people. But as Skarimpas writes: "The Patriarchate excommunicated. The elders and the bishops mocked. Kapodistrias turned his back. Korais made a grimace". The beginning was very difficult and the end was devastating.

The Church, not only did not lead the race but she fought against it, with all means. The church excommunicated Rigas Feraios, was opposed to 'evil' views of freedom, equality and democracy coming from the West and eventually excommunicated the revolution itself . Of course nobody was in Agia Lavra on March 25 and the Palaion Patron Germanos not only did not raised the banner (which was made after 50 years), but cursed the rebel Papaflessa.

The Revolution of '21 failed completely. After the invasion of Ibrahim, had been left neither one revolutionary goal. We freed only because of the decision of the Great Powers - and the action on the battle of Navarino. (It was the first - and best - "humanitarian intervention" in history).

The revolution failed because the Greeks were fighting each other, rather than with the Turks. The - already so absent - Kostis Papagiorgis, had characterize it as "nationwide civil war, who euphemistically christened as revolution from the ideologues historians."

In the Revolution took place acts of brutality by the Greeks. In the capture of Tripoli were massacred over 30,000 civilians - among them many Jews who were uninvolved in the fight. Reason : loot . Kolokotronis says in his Memoirs: "the Greek mob inside the city was cutting and killing from Friday to Sunday, women children and men, 32000, around one hour of Tripoli". (Unlike the Turk Albanian defenders of the city who were left unscathed after agreement. That means that Kolokotronis was in control of the army and thus allowed the ethnic cleansing).

And those who do not like the Albanians, should know that some of the bravest chieftains and captains were Albanians who did not even spoke the Greek language. And when Mavrokordatos gave a speech to the crews of the Greek fleet had a translator because they did not understand a word (as writes Paparrigopoulos) .

We will have matured as a nation when our school books include these (and other) difficult truths; when we cease to be silent or mythology. This is how we will realize the verb of Solomos which identifies the True with the National".