Source: Ahval News
By Tiny Url
When cornered by escalating domestic problems, autocrats frequently resort to provoking and even launching external conflict to re-coalesce the masses around chauvinism, to make them forget the fact that they are famished, and keep them powerless and paralysed. Even though the majority of the population does not go to fight the war, the masses feel happy, despite their growling stomachs. These ventures regularly mark the end of those regimes as well.
The Greek military junta was behind the 1974 coup d’état in Cyprus that overthrew President Makarios and replaced him with Nikos Sampson. The Greek colonels’ regime collapsed following Turkey’s invasion of the island and the colonels were brought to justice.
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