Editing Metaxism (section)

==History==
===[[File:Metaxi.png]] Ioannis Metaxas regime===
After WWI and the Greco-Turkish War in 1922, Greece saw a huge financial decline, millions of Greek immigrants from Asia Minor flooding urban areas and a lack of political stability which led to many coup d'etats by the [[File:Venizelos.png]] [[National Liberalism|Venizelists]]. Under these circumstances in 1935, a rigged Monarchist referendum was staged that brought King George II of Greece to the Throne. In January 1936, the King appointed prime minister Ioannis Metaxas. Metaxas promoted [[File:Isolation.png]]  [[Isolationism|neutrality]] in WWI and was a [[File:Monarch.png]] [[Monarchism|Monarchist]] [[File:Sec.png]] [[Authoritarianism|Authoritarian]] Anti-Venizelist. On the 4th of August 1936, Ioannis Metaxas dissolved all political parties in the parliament, including his own. Ioannis Metaxas started reforming the country. He promoted the idea that there were 3 Hellenic Civilizations. The [[File:Hellenism.png]] [[Pagan Theocracy|Ancient Greek]]  (1st), the [[File:Cball-Byzantine.png]] [[Byzantine Model|Byzantine Greek]] (2nd) and the current one, the Modern Greek (3rd) and that Greece should make progress by looking back at its predecessors. He started exiling [[File:Natcom.png]] [[National Communism|KKE members]] and some Venizelist figures and started reforming a Collectivized Centrist Economic Plan that would help the farmers and workers of Greece. He militarized Greece and acknowledged that foreign minorities in Greece existed, but should speak Greek, including Jews. He was inspired by other [[File:Fash.png]] [[Fascism|Fascist]] movements in Interwar Europe, enforcing the Fascist Salute, the idea of a Unifying Leader (Archigos) and established a Youth Organization (E.O.N.) based on the German model but was distanced from other [[File:Fash.png]] [[Fascism|Fascist]] Countries diplomatically. He also tried to keep a more neutral approach to external policies. He met [[File:Goebbels.png]] [[Mediacracy|Goebbels]] and had talks with [[File:Mussolini.png]] [[Fascism|Mussolini]] but was more aligned with the British until the outbreak of WWII in Greece in 1940. Greece saw temporary success against Italy in Italian Albania but lost to the Germans in 1941 despite British and Australian support. Metaxas died in 1941 before seeing the end of the war and the Government-In-Exile moved to Egypt under the leadership of King George II. While in Greece the 'Hellenic State' was established as an Axis Puppet State.

===[[File:GeorgiosGrivas.png]] Military career of Georgios Grivas===
Georgios Grivas was born in Cyprus in 1897 or 1898 from an Anglophilic Greek rich family. He was trained in a Military Academy in Athens and fought in the Greco-Turkish War of 1922. Then, when WWII broke out he fought against the Italians in Albania until 1941. After the occupation of Greece by the Germans he established 'Organization X' in Athens. Its main goal was to get rid of the [[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism-Leninism|Communist]] resistance no matter the cost. It is also said that Grivas was assisted by the collaborationist Greek puppet state and the British at the end of the war. After the war, Georgios Grivas took part in the 'White Terrorism' in Greece during the Civil War. At that time he was also politically involved with the [[File:Natcon.png]] [[National Conservatism|People's Party]] without any big success. However in 1955 he returned to Cyprus where he was the military leader of EOKA, a [[File:Classnat.png]] [[Nationalism|nationalist]] Greek Organization who tried to free Cyprus from [[File:BritishEmpire.png]] British Imperialism [[File:Cball-UK.png]]. In 1967 when the Greek military junta had taken over in Greece he was a big supporter of Papadopoulos' ideas. But in 1974 he returned to Cyprus where he established EOKA 2, in order to fight the Turkish invasion of the island. He died in Cyprus in January of 1974 at the age of 76.