The last 4 days I was in Oslo.
The Norwegians are very proud of their recent history.Surprisingly I found out that they do have a museum of resistance commemorating the resistance against the Nazi occupation of Norway.Unfortunately didn't have time to visit the museum but checked its website...The introductory description refers to the patriots who fought against the Nazi....
Couldn't help it not to compare with Greece.
We did have resistance during the Nazi occupation but we had also a civil war afterwards and an extremely conservative political occupation which ended up with the junta of 1967.
During so called metapoliteysi we did talk about the dictatorship but we never really touched the issue of civil war.Even nowadays there are right wing members of the parliament who seek the termination of so called national resistance pensions...they are the same people who consider the prospect of a central left coalition governing Greece detrimental to the national security of the country!
who was more patriotic in Greece at that time? at the very end who is a patriotic, national hero or ever worse a savor?
some thoughts after an inspiring event in Oslo...
http://www.mil.no/felles/nhm/start/eng/
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