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October 28 is Oxi! (No!) Day for Greeks
At 3 a.m. on the morning of October 28th, 1940, during the World War Two, Emanuele Grazzi, the Italian ambassador to Greece, delivered an ultimatum from Prime Minister Benito Mussolini to Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas. Mussolini demanded that Metaxas allow … Continue reading →
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Tagged Albania, Hitler, Ioannis Metaxas, Iron Curtain, Mussolini, Operation Barbarossa, Winston Churchill
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