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Amalia wrote that if diplomacy had developed differently in late 1940 or early 1941, the Soviet Union could have attacked Greece while it was fighting Italy. She argued that the German-Soviet pact did not define spheres of influence in the Balkans and that Stalin was particularly interested in Bulgaria. According to her post, on November 25, 1940, Soviet diplomat Arkady Sobolev conveyed a proposal for an alliance in Sofia. Amalia stated that the USSR offered Bulgaria military support in case of threat, support for its territorial claims in Greek areas, non-interference in its internal politics, and free grain and oil. In return, she claimed, it sought to establish naval and air bases in Varna and Burgas, while Stalin asked Hitler to recognize Bulgaria as part of the Soviet sphere of influence. Amalia argued that the Comintern, in a message signed by Georgi Dimitrov, called on the Bulgarian Communist Party to mobilize politicians and the public in favor of the proposal. She estimated that Soviet support for Bulgarian claims would require an ultimatum to Greece and, in the event of refusal, an invasion by Soviet and Bulgarian troops. In the post, Hitler prevented the agreement, warning of a potential Sovietization of Bulgaria and promising the Bulgarians the same Greek territories without war. Amalia noted that King Boris rejected the Soviet proposal and that Bulgaria joined the Axis in March 1941. #Ιστορία #ΕλληνοϊταλικόςΠόλεμος #ΣοβιετικήΈνωση (translated)

The explosive situation in Greek education, against the backdrop of high living costs and rents, is prompting mobilizations from students and educators, who are planning protests and strikes to defend public schools and universities. #Παιδεία #Ακρίβεια #ΦοιτητικήΜέριμνα (translated)

"It is a daily problem that affects everyone, regardless of what each person votes for." With a statement from the party's president, Feidias Panayiotou, Direct Democracy calls on citizens to participate in the mobilization, seeking immediate and substantial solutions for the cost of electricity. #ΆμεσηΔημοκρατία #Διαμαρτυρία #ΗλεκτρικόΡεύμα (translated)

Babis Georges Petrakis wrote that 22-year-old Louise Montangon, a graduate philosophy student, had stood out in France for her interventions regarding student protests. According to him, she had denounced on television shows that the "Islamo-left" was instrumentalizing them, while she criticized the violence and the blockades of schools, saying that a noisy minority was preventing the majority of students from attending classes. Petrakis noted that Montangon had stated that she was ashamed to belong to her generation and had emphasized the importance of effort and excellence. Petrakis added that Montangon had denounced violence, threats, and bullying from leftist students, and that she had interrupted her in-person classes for safety reasons. In his description, groups of dozens or even hundreds of people were waiting to remove her from the school and the library. He also said that she had stated that she would not back down from her views. Petrakis mentioned that Montangon belonged to the National Rally (Rassemblement National) of Marine Le Pen and was working for common ideological platforms among the conservative parties of France. #Γενιά #Φοιτητές #Ιδεολογίες (translated)

Vasso Koulpa, the mother of Anastasios Koutsopoulos, described in her testimony at the trial for the Tempe disaster how she said goodbye to her son before he boarded the train. She mentioned that he was initially scheduled to leave the next day and that he had shown her his new mobile phone, which, as he told her, could be used to call in case of an accident. Koulpa said that at 11:05, Tasos informed her by phone that the train was delayed and that he was in Larissa. Later, when he did not answer her calls, her husband speculated that there might not have been a signal along the route. At 12:15, as she reported, her son George informed her that the train had derailed. The family set off for Larissa, and upon arriving at the scene, she was searching for Tasos among the injured and the people who were crying. At the hospital, according to her testimony, she saw a stretcher being taken down from an ambulance that carried a bag with a dead body, and she tried to determine if the body was her son’s. Later, she told the investigating judge that she did not know what exactly she had received, describing how her child had been burned. She claimed that Tasos had survived the collision and could have been saved if the fire had not broken out. Koulpa stated that she wanted to know the truth and requested that the investigation and justice not be influenced by political considerations. She also said that she did not accept human error as an explanation and called for all evidence to be examined. #Δικαιοσύνη #Τέμπη #Αλήθεια (translated)

Clashes broke out between the police and thousands of students at the Bastille in Paris during mass protests for better conditions in schools and a request for 10 billion euros for education, with a new call for strikes on October 13. #Γαλλία #εκπαίδευση #κινητοποιήσεις (translated)

The educational organizations POED, OELMEK, and OLTEK are requesting intervention from the President of the Republic for a fair solution to the Teachers' Appointment System through mass mobilization, expressing concern for their employment prospects and the recognition of their prior experience. #Εκπαιδευτικοί #Διορισμοί #Κύπρος (translated)

A court decision gives the residents of Kypseli access to the documents related to the construction of Metro Line 4, with implications for the subsidence caused by the project, prompting them to schedule a mobilization for immediate solutions. #Κυψέλη #Μετρό #ΔικαστικήΑπόφαση (translated)

The French Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez, stated that since the start of student protests to date, 761 police officers and gendarmes, 215 students, and 89 members of the national education system staff have been injured, while simultaneously clarifying that there have been 6,629 arrests. #Γαλλία #μαθητικές_κινητοποιήσεις #βία (translated)

The author of the post mentioned that student mobilizations took place in Strasbourg and throughout France, with participants protesting against cuts in education. He added that, in his view, public and free education was no longer a given in Europe, but a demand. https://t.co/lDlpFEdMLV #παιδεία #εκπαίδευση #κινητοποιήσεις #EU #FR (translated)