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The decision to return to (at least nominal) civilian rule and the restriction of the army's role did not go nearly far enough for those who wanted full democracy. At the same time, this move was resented by many of the regime's supporters, whose dissatisfaction with Papadopoulos would become evident a few months later.
The Greek junta or Regime of the Colonels [a] 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.
Dimitrios Papadopoulos (Greek: Δημήτριος Παπαδόπουλος; 27 December 1889 – 5 December 1983) was a Hellenic Army officer who reached the rank of Lieutenant General. He is most notable for his leadership in the Greco-Italian War of 1940–41.
The junta on trial. Ioannidis standing up while Papadopoulos, Makarezos and Pattakos watch the proceedings from the front row. The Greek junta trials (Greek: Οι Δίκες της Χούντας translated as: The Τrials of the Junta) were the court trials involving members of the military junta that ruled Greece from 21 April 1967 to 23 July 1974.
A military junta, presided over by Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos, had ruled Greece since a group of middle-ranking officers staged a coup on 21 April 1967. King Constantine II reluctantly endorsed the coup, but started preparing for a counter-coup by elements of the armed forces loyal to him.
The regime was first led by Georgios Tsolakoglou, however he was sacked a year later and replaced by Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, who himself was sacked in 1943.The last prime minister of the Hellenic State was Ioannis Rallis, who led the collaborationist regime until its dissolution in 1944.
George Papadopoulos was born August 19, 1987, at Swedish Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, [14] to Greek immigrants parents originally from Thessaloniki. [15] [16] His father, Antonis, was heavily involved in the local politics of the Greek-American community and is the former president of the Pan-Macedonian Union of the United States. [17]
Constantine was born during the early stages of World War II. He was just a few months old when, on 28 October 1940, Fascist Italy invaded Greece from Albania , beginning the Greco-Italian War . The Greek Army was able to halt the invasion temporarily and push the Italians back into Albania .