Chet Smolski, Rhode Island College

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Date

10-1968

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This photo from Kavala is dated October 1968. A year and a half earlier the Greek military lead a coup d’etat and the country went into a police state in which torture was common, and all activities were under surveillance. In late 1967 King Constantine II took a plane to Kavala with the hopes of launching a counter coup d’etat. It quickly failed and the king was forced into exile. Greece remained a member NATO despite criticism of it’s human rights record. The Greek military junta was closely involved with NATO and CIA in planning it’s coup because of Greek’s strategic position in the cold war.

Notes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_military_junta_of_1967–1974

http://www.ahistoryofgreece.com/junta.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavala

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This object from the Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, housed by the Rhode Island College Special Collections, and any of its digital surrogates are the intellectual property of Rhode Island College. This digital object is protected by copyright and/or related rights. The digital material presented here is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This content can be used, shared, or adapted for educational and scholarly purposes. For permissions to use this item please contact digitalcommons@ric.edu. All uses must include appropriate attribution.

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Recommended Citation

Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, MSS-0041, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.

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Keywords

public spaces, NATO, Kavala, Greece, street scene

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