Pictured: Two young girls leave a red carnations at the monument for the uprising at the Athens Polytechnic in Athens Greece. Thursday 17 November 2016<br /> Re: 43rd anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising of 1973 which was a massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. The uprising began on November 14, 1973, escalated to an open anti-junta revolt and ended in bloodshed in the early morning of November 17 after a series of events starting with a tank crashing through the gates of the Polytechnic.
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