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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

The October 28, 1940 ‘OXI’: Brave Words by Brave Men

Few great moments of Greece’s history are so well documented as the defiant “OXI” Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas told the Italian Ambassador in Athens Emanuele Grazzi at three o’clock in the morning of October 28, 1940. Grazzi visited Metaxas’ home to deliver an ultimatum from Italian leader Benito Mussolini.  Il Duce, as Mussolini was affectionately


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