A few days ago the US Embassy in Athens was hit by the terrorist group “Epanastatikos Agonas” (”Revolutionary Struggle”) causing small damages in the building. In the past, groups like this, have hit foreign banks and companies, most of the times American, British, French and German. Groups like this struggle to overthrough capitalism and through such actions they just accomplish to have a louder say among the others. Of course no rocket can overthrough capitalism, especially when it causes only two broken windows.
Further in the past, another terrorist group, sharing the same ideology, called “17 November” or just “17N” had attended to or had even killed American and British Officers, Greek politicians and businessmen. Among targets there were embassies and companies as well. Some years ago the terrorists were finally arrested, after about 30 years of action. They tried to present themselves as thinkers and heroes, who were just fighting imperialism and capatalism.
17 November terrorist group was named after the student’s uprising against the military Junta (dictatorship), which took place in November 17th, 1973. The Junta was believed (but later was evidentially proved) that was imposed with Washington’s decision. Using this fact, the socialist governments cultivatedthe anti-americanism in Greece, after the collapsus of the Junta regime. Many Latin American figures, like Che Guevara, became popular in Greece.
A strong relationship between the peoples of Chile and Greece was also developed, because of the same fate the country had, after the Aliente government was overthrown. The NATO involvement in the Balkans, during the 90s, was another reason the anti-americanism grew in Greece. Greeks consider the Serbs a brother-nation, since both peoples are Orthodoxs and have never fought one against the other (at least in the recent history). The war in Iraq made the thing even more difficult.
But how dangerous can they be to those who just visit Greece?
All these terrorist factions, have never hit citizens of other countries, meaning that their target were only Officers, Officials and Dignitaries. They are not dangerous at all for tourists and visitors, since they claim that the struggle they conduct targets NOT the people of America, but the “imperialism of America”. And it is true that they have never hurted the “insignificants”. Also they have never attacked massively, causing many deaths at a time.
There can be no comparison with Islamic terrorism, since they are two completely different things.
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