Hello! Join us today as we continue our look at the life of Ioannis Metaxas, following his rocky climb to the top of the Greek political realm, where he will earn the title as the "Chief of All Greeks" and dictator of the 4th of August Regime. 

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• Popular Autocracy, P.J. Vatikiotis
• Venizelos, Michael Llewellyn-Smith
• Metaxas Project
• Ionian Vision, Michael Llewellyn-Smith
• Red Acropolis Black Terror, Andre Gerolymatos
• John Carr, The Defense and Fall of Greece

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Greetings! Today we're going to introduce you to Ioannis Metaxas. The man who will put the axe in the back of the Greek Republic, build up a quasi-fascist police state, and prepare his new state for the inevitable war barreling towards the Balkans. But first, lets learn more about this controversial figure in Greek modern history. 

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• Popular Autocracy, P.J. Vatikiotis
• Venizelos, Michael Llewellyn-Smith
• Metaxas Project
• Ionian Vision, Michael Llewellyn-Smith
• Red Acropolis Black Terror, Andre Gerolymatos

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Hello friends! Join us on the last part of our Primers, where we will also cover the last dying gasps of the Greek Republic in the mid 1930's, and a slew of deaths that will help catapult Ioannis Metaxas to the position of Prime Minister, and into the history books. 

• Ionian Vision, Michael Llewellyn-Smith
• Red Acropolis Black Terror, Andre Gerolymatos
• The Balkan Wars, Andre Gerolymatos
• Greek Genocide Resource Center
• The Last Ottomans, David Featherstone, Dimitris Papadimitriou
• Popular Autocracy, P.J. Vatikiotis
• Metaxas Project

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Hey everyone! Join us as we continue to touch on the fall out from the Treaty of Lausanne, and talk about Venizelos's ambitious 4-year term and his attempts and stabilizing the chaos that was Greece in the 1920's. 

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• Ionian Vision, Michael Llewellyn-Smith
• Red Acropolis Black Terror, Andre Gerolymatos
• The Balkan Wars, Andre Gerolymatos
• Greek Genocide Resource Center
• The Last Ottomans, David Featherstone, Dimitris Papadimitriou
• https://johntpsaropoulos.substack.com/p/the-great-idea-and-the-catastrophe
• Asia Minor Campaign
• Greek Diplomacy towards Fascist Italy, 1922-1940, Antonis Klapsis

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Hello again. Join us on today's Primer Part 2, as we navigate the fall out from the Asia Minor flop, and get a look at what the roaring twenties meant for Greece.
We'll continue to work our way up to 1928, seeing all the signs of a well functioning and stable government along the way! Remember! ABC! Always. Be. Couping! 

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• Zorba The Greek, Nikos Kazanrzakis
• Ionian Vision, Michael Llewellyn-Smith
• Red Acropolis Black Terror, Andre Gerolymatos
• Greek Genocide Resource Center
• Grandson of one of the 6
• The Last Ottomans, David Featherstone, Dimitris Papadimitriou
• 1955 Istanbul Pogrom
• https://johntpsaropoulos.substack.com/p/the-great-idea-and-the-catastrophe
• Asia Minor Campaign
• Popular Autocracy, P.J. Vatikiotis

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Happy to say welcome to what will be the first episode of this project. On this Episode Tom and Basil kick off what will be an entire segment, (its own mini-series really) on the Greek Civil War. To make sure you guys aren't entirely lost , we've put together 4 Primer Episodes, which will hopefully serve their purpose and get you in the mood for some lesser known topics of modern Greek history.

In Primer: Part 1, we fly through Greek history, up to roughly 1923 and what is known as the Asia Minor Catastrophe. 

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Sources:

• Ionian Vision, Michael Llewellyn-Smith
• Red Acropolis Black Terror, Andre Gerolymatos
• The Balkan Wars, Andre Gerolymatos
• Greek Genocide Resource Center
• Ernest Hemingway, On the Quai at Smyrna
• https://www.thejc.com/life-and-culture/books/review-the-thirty-year-genocide-bh6kp7ah?fbclid=IwAR05mY6KNeEYAGzXheYO26Hgzb0iGPW7bFyXGEkY6qFLrbfP_6Cbiu74npc
• The 30 year genocide, Benny Morris, Dror Ze’evi
• Lemkin Institute
• NeosKosmos.com Asa Jennings
• The Greek Genocide in American Naval War diaries
• The Greek Current- The Asia Minor Catastrophe episode 4.18.2022 
• https://johntpsaropoulos.substack.com/p/the-great-idea-and-the-catastrophe
• Asia Minor Campaign
• Popular Autocracy, P.J. Vatikiotis

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