«…their heads held high as they stare, seemingly unafraid, into the camera.»
So now you know what it means to be #antifa and #antiNazi, and what it takes to have "a democracy, if you can keep it".
Free riders wait for miracles to happen. The Greeks, especially the left and communists, fought to death to earn their day of freedom.
Try to unsee the look on their faces, as they march to their death, if you can.
"The night before, they had made sure to wash and shave. They weren’t afraid of what was about to happen. They saw it as an honour.”
As if coming from the depths of myth, they made death a celebration of freedom.
Όσοι το χάλκεον χέρι
βαρύ του φόβου αισθάνονται
ζυγόν δουλείας ας έχωσι·
θέλει αρετήν και τόλμην η ελευθερία
Those feeling the bronze grip of fear
deserve a yoke of slavery;
for it takes virtue and courage to be free.
Andreas Kalvos, 1824
The moment they had prepared to celebrate: meeting Death at the stony threshing floors, on a sunny Monday morning.
Greek communists, heads up, fists up, the moment they are executed by Nazi Germans. Kaisariani, Athens, Greece, May 1, 1944.
(No content warning for comfort. We free-riders of democracy owe our freedom to such man.)
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