Metaxism

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"Greece since the 4th of August became an anticommunist State, an antiparliamentary State, a totalitarian State. A State based on its peasants and workers, and so antiplutocratic. There is not, of course, a particular party to govern. This party is all the People, except of the incorrigible communists and the reactionary politicians of the old parties."

File:Metaxi.png Ioannis Metaxas

Metaxism, is an Authoritarian Unity Ideology. It is corporatist, culturally right, and believes in File:Conmon.png Constitutional Monarchism. He wants to create a "Third Hellenic Civilization" (first one being Ancient Greece and second being Byzantium). Metaxism believes that minorities within Greece should assimilate to the Greek national identity and that it should be forbidden to use languages other than Greek in public or in private.

Beliefs

• Greek nationalism: Promoted cultural purity of the Greek nation and endorsed the creation of a "Third Hellenic Civilization".

• Monarchism: Considered the institution of monarchy a pillar of national unity.

• Anti-communism: Metaxism was very hostile to left-wing and communist ideologies.

• Anti-parliamentarianism: Denounced the way the old parliamentary system operated, as a cause of anarchy, division and economic decline.

• Corporatism: Worked strongly through corporate groups and trade unions.

• Clericalism: The Greek Orthodox Church was an integral aspect of the Metaxist regime.

• Protectionism: Considered the market-liberal policies of the old state to have failed.

• Anti-imperialism: Opposed the domination and influence of Greece by foreign powers.

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 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 neutrality in WWI and was a Monarchist 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 Ancient Greek (1st), the File:Cball-Byzantine.png 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 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 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 Fascist Countries diplomatically. He also tried to keep a more neutral approach to external policies. He met File:Goebbels.png Goebbels and had talks with File:Mussolini.png 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 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 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 nationalist Greek Organization who tried to free Cyprus from British Imperialism . 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.

Personality

Metaxism is above all else, a Greek patriot and devotedly Orthodox. He has beef with Turks over Constantinople and Megali Idea while being nostalgic for the Byzantine Empire.

How to Draw

File:Metaxi flag.svg

Flag of Metaxism

The flag of Metaxism is based on the flag of the National Youth Organisation, a state-ran youth organization during the 4th of August Regime.

1. Draw a ball with eyes and fill it with blue
2. Add a white cross
3. Add a beige double axe (labrys) in the middle of the cross
4. Add two olive leaf branches surrounding the Axe
5. Add a yellow crown in the top left corner

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Blue	#0072B8	rgb(0, 114, 184)
	White	#FFFFFF	rgb(255, 255, 255)
	Beige	#BCA06B	rgb(188, 160, 107)
	Gold	#E5D087	rgb(229, 208, 135)

Relations

Φιλικός

• File:Conmon.png Συνταγματική Μοναρχία - The Monarchy is the bedrock of Hellas!
• Εθνικός Συντηρησμός - Long Live the Nation!
• File:Orth.png Ορθόδοχη Θεοκρατία - Greek Orthodoxy is the religion of Greece and its people!
• Μπισμαρκισμός - The German Empire was our greatest ally! Also, the King's mother is the sister of the Kaiser.
• File:StratoDictature-Antifurry.png Στρατοκρατία - The Hellenic Army is our greatest tool!
• File:Salazar.png Σαλαζαρισμος - Me but Portuguese and Catholic.
• Φρανκοισμός - The same as above but Spanish and more stratocratic.
• File:Cball-Byzantine.png Βυζάντινο Μοντέλο - Our ancestors built a great empire; a Hellenic Rome!
• File:Lingnat.png Γλωσσικός Εθνικισμός - Everyone in Greece should speak Greek, including the Jews.
• File:ConCorp.png Συντηρητικός Κορπορατισμός, File:Patcon.png Πατερναλιστικός συντηρητισμός, File:WelfChauvin.png Σοβινισμός πρόνοιας & File:Mondistli.png Μονάρχο-Διανομισμός - The best economic models.
• Εθνικός Αγροτισμός - The peasants are an important part of Greece.
• Εθνοεθνικισμός - Greece is for the Greeks!
• Αγγλοφιλία - The United Kingdom, after the Great War, is indeed our greatest ally. Even though he calls me his puppet!

Μικτός

• File:Irridentism.png Αλυτρωτισμός - Although national unification is a goal to strive towards, it must be done gradually and methodically.
• File:Sorelia.png Εθνικός Συνδικαλισμός - Metaxas was the father of the workers and established the International Workers' Day in Greece, though he also wanted the businessmen to thrive!
• Κεμαλισμός - Like File:Venizelos.png him, I won’t forget what you did to my people in the Smyrna Catastrophe and Pontic Genocide, but I don’t want to take your land and instead we should work together and unite against the Italian and German threats. Why remain neutral in WWII like a coward though?

Εχθροί

• Φασισμός - Οχι! Dare to invade me again and I’m going to beat you as I did in 1940!
• Ναζισμός - Nazi scum. I’m never joining the Axis! Why does Golden Dawn like both me and you?
• File:Ittihad.png Κατσαρίδα - You were the precursor of the guy above, you committed also genocide against so many Greeks! Ataturk was right to overthrow you!
• File:Ottoman.png Μογγόλος - You are weak sperm. You are weak sperm. This is the strong sperm. Here's the Greek God. Okay? Greek God. File:Gigachad.png
  • File:Ottoman.png If you- If you have- If you have Greek God you would have win but you lose. HAHAHAHA.

• • File:Metaxi.png Lose where? Lose where?

• • File:Ottoman.png You lose! Why is- why is Hagia Sophia this, but not File:Orth.png?

• Μαρξισμός-Λενινισμός - Stop treating the Pontic Greeks like sh*t, Communist scum!
• File:KKE.png Kομμουνιστικό Kόμμα Eλλάδος - Nothing more than a regional variant of Marxism-Leninism.
• Φιλελευθερισμός - Degenerates who will destroy Hellas!
• File:Venizelos.png Βενιζελισμός - You should have listened to me in WWI, now we stopped your efforts for a godless republican Greece. Don't even get me started on how you kinda admired him in the end.
• File:Parti.png Μετοχοκρατία - All political parties are now banned, including my own.
• File:Lesfem.png Ριζοσπαστικός Φεμινισμός - How dare you use the Labrys, the symbol of ancient Greek Warriors, for your perverse goals?!

Further Information

Videos

• Ionnis Metaxas and the Greek Corporate State - Matthew Raphael Johnson

Wikipedia

• Metaxism
• Ioannis Metaxas
• 4th of August Regime
• Freethinkers' Party
• National Youth Organisation (Greece)

Gallery

• Credit: File:Colmin.pngTheLegend2T, Source
  Credit: File:Colmin.pngTheLegend2T, Source
• Credit: File:Ktech-icon.png K-Tech, Source
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