On this day in 1973, the Athens Polytechnic Uprising against the military regime in Greece is brutally put down, with tanks crashing into the campus. It would however trigger a series of protests, that would bring the end of the military junta by 1974.

3 comments

1. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens_Polytechnic_uprising](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens_Polytechnic_uprising)

2. What a picture!!

3. We should never forget how fragile this all is, this brief period of historically unique European liberalism and liberty.