New Poll Reveals That 30% Of Greeks Are Nostalgic To Junta Dictatorship (TIME LINE VIDEO)

Apparently a third of Greeks are nostalgic to the 1967-74 dictatorship. A new poll, published in the Sunday edition of Eleftherotypia,  on the coup’s 46th anniversary (April 21), claims that at least 30 percent of respondents agreed that under the 1967-74 dictatorship things were better (in Greece) than they are today. That figure rises to 46 percent among conservative New Democracy voters, but (surprise, surprise) even a quarter of SYRIZA voters agree.

Nostalgia for the dictatorship is markedly higher when people are asked about living standards and security. At least 46 percent and 59 percent said conditions during the junta were better, respectively.

The dictatorship began on April 21, 1967 by a nationalist conspiracy of colonels who had become radicalised during their military service in Cyprus. The junta collapsed after a failed attempt to spawn a coup in Cyprus in July 1974, which in return triggered the Turkish invasion of the northern part of the island. Since the restoration of democracy in Greece, there has been a loathing of the colonels’ dictatorship, and this has in some way become a mantra for politicians from all parties, but as witnessed in the poll, not by one third of the people.

Reference in Greek - News24