During the first years of the dictatorship in Greece (1967-1971), what was the reason that so many great movies and beautiful songs were made?
All the good ones were made before the Greek junta. In fact the early sixties saw a tremendous renaissance in Greek culture, in music, poetry and movies. The dictatorship clamped down and blocked the emergence of a true and viable culture of the arts in Greece and Greece still pays the price for this sudden halt.Here are five top Greek movies everybody in Greece has seen. All were made before the junta. Can’t think of any great movies made in Greece during the junta. All kitsch and noise.1955: STELLA, with title role acted by Melina Mercouri and her lover played by George Foundas - a movie which won prizes at Cannes1960: NEVER ON SUNDAY which won the best original song - Oscar with Melina Mercouri and the music of Manos Hadjdakis. Perhaps the most famous song from Greece, after Zorba.1963. THE RED LANTERN with music by Stavros Xarhakos and acted by Jenny Karezi1964 ZORBA THE GREEK, title role played by Anthony Quinn, a movie which won three Oscars, and defined the culture of modern Greece.1969 Z, an important anti-junta movie directed by Costas Gavras and acted by Yves Montand and Jean-Louis Trintignant and Irene Pappas. It was made as accusation against the Greek dictatorship and produced completely outside of Greece. Based on the book by anti-junta author Vasilis Vassilikos.
If the US were to ever go full dictatorship, would it more likely be led by religious zealots or secular white supremacists?
I wish I could say this is not possible… but the truth is, more than half the people voting in presidential elections are moving in that direction. As one would expect as a liberal you are trying to say it would be a conservative dictator. Nice try. For decades liberals have been increasingly aggressive in moving this country to a one party system, communism. The push to eliminate the electoral college, to run a conservative president out of office, the violent attacks on free speech are all hallmarks of communist infiltration. The number of admitted backers of communism in the Democratic party in congress is well over 100. You can Google this.What we are seeing with this whole fiasco about Trump and the Russians is a smokescreen. It is stereotype communist tactics to keep the focus away from themselves until it is too late to stop them.The dictator will be an Obama type politician. He or she will extoll the virtues of American Democracy while aggressively under mining the country. Obama felt so safe in this role that he stopped having any pretense of his intentions at all.Communists become incredibly aggressive when there is any hint of failure. We are watching this in real time with their attack on President Trump.
How did the rise of a dictator lead to WW2?
Basically millions of people decided to obey few people and proceeded to kill each other for few years.Compare “I was just following orders” to modern “as a professional soldier, I have to follow orders”.We are just one hysteria away from ww3, really.
Was Alexander The Great macedonian or greek?
Actually, Mike, your answer is controversal. You know pure history, but you know nothing about unique Macedonia. Well you have to learn much more than the same answer you putted anywhere.The FYROM linguistic creature is as far controversal as so many Greek minds are (not ALL, I strong believe this).Could you imagine your neighbour says you should change your name because he thinks it's his "property".Isn't it desperate will?
How did farming pave the way for the emergence of civilization?
DOES ANYBODY HAVE THE ANSWERS TO THE A.P. World History Summer Assignment for 2010? That would help me TONS! Here are the questions from the Assignment: 1. According to Standage, how did the Fertile Crescent get its name? 2. How is beer production an example of plant domestication? 3. What effect did storing grain have on hunter-gatherer societies? 4. How was beet used by the Sumerian and Egyptian civilizations? 5. How did farming pave the way for the emergence of civilization? 6. What did drinking wine symbolize in ancient Greece? 7. What role did wine play at the symposium? 8. What did drinking wine symbolize in ancient Rome? 9. What was a convivium and how did it reflect social status? 10. Why do Christians drink wine and Muslims do not? 11. From which advance civilization did Europeans get the “science” of making spirits? 12. In what ways was the “discovery” and use of distillation important to the rebirth of science in Europe? 13. How did spirits advance/accelerate colonialism?
What are your favorite ways that Ancient Greece has influenced culture?
I really adore ancient Greece. There are some things from ancient Greece that we should all be proud of. First of all ancient Greece was the first democracy. That means that not only the opinnion of one person counts, but a big group of people can have their own opinnions and there is not a dictator ruling.The second great thing from ancient Greece are the Olympic Games. These days it is more than just a sports event. It is an event where the whole world can unite as one, have some cultural experience and has a lot of fun.The third thing that people can be proud of from ancient Greece is that there were a lot of important persons who had found out a lot of things we need in medicine, education, philosophy, maths and other important things. These people are set up a lot for modern society which is helpful these days.Like that you can see that ancient Greece was a country with very nice elements for the society.
Why did Communism inevitably lead to dictatorship and totalitarianism?
The central communist tenet demanding that private property be relinquished to the State necessitates violence."From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs," rapidly gives way to its echoic distortion, "From each according to his virtues, to each according to his flaws." Why would a Russian or Cambodian farmer yield his well-tended 40 acres to be held in common trust alongside the weed-choked drunkard neighbor's lot, except by fear for his and his family's lives? In this specific instance (which is a historical fact) his ability (to grow food and feed his village), not won through heritage or capricious fortune but through conscientious effort and ethics, is sacrificed to meet another's needs, which befell him not through ill fate but through poor choices. Do not interpret that to mean that in all instances, poverty is the result of poor choices. I refer only to the expropriations (and death) which have begun all communist regimes: Cuba, China, Cambodia, Russia, North Korea. My point is specific to the fact that many productive farmers and workers were forced to "be equal" to their less dedicated countrymen, destroying their incentives to continue to strive. In order to have a centrally-planned economy and destruction of the principle of private ownership, "despotic inroads" are the means. The authoritarian use of force is innately repressive, giving undue and unrestrained power to those who wield it: if they were not already corrupt by dint of their attraction to the opportunity to employ violence, then they are certainly corrupted by the power to abuse it. The peacelover does not wish to bully his neighbor and take his land, for himself or for "the State."That is how tyranny is born. The vaunted ideals of abundance, comradeship and common property inevitably becomes the reality of an unbalanced and unjust system, with grandees living in the party's inner circle, protected by a cruel regime of fear, while serfs abound, forever oppressed.