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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)

Amalia accused Russia of deliberately launching attacks against civilians in Ukraine, citing strikes on apartment buildings, schools, shopping centers, public transport, playgrounds, and bridges. She argued that most of the victims were Russian-speaking individuals in Eastern Ukraine and criticized those who, as she wrote, showed sensitivity towards Palestine and Iran in Greece, but not towards Ukrainians. Regarding the recent strikes, she mentioned that in Pryluky, Chernihiv Oblast, 22 civilians were killed, including 5 children—three of them one year old—and 54 were injured. For Kramatorsk in Donetsk Oblast, she wrote that two city buses were attacked and 33 people were killed, while the number of injured remained unknown. She added that 9 people were also killed in Kyiv, 2 in Kremenchuk, 2 in Konotop, 2 in Oleksandriia, and 1 in Zaporizhzhia, raising the death toll of civilian casualties over the two days to 71, according to her. Regarding the negotiations with U.S. intervention, Amalia claimed that Zelensky was accepting a ceasefire with the troops in their current positions and was asking for guarantees from the West. She stated that pro-Russian separatist forces controlled 60% of Donetsk Oblast before the Russian invasion of 2022, that since then the Russian army had captured an additional 20%, and that it had not managed to capture the remaining 20%. She asserted that Putin did not want a ceasefire, but a peace agreement that would require Zelensky to go to Moscow, the demilitarization of Ukraine, a constitutional commitment not to seek EU or NATO membership, and the recognition of the territories occupied by Russia since 2014, including Crimea. She added that Russia was also demanding the surrender of the remaining 20% of Donetsk Oblast that it had not captured. Amalia compared the situation to Cyprus, where, as she wrote, since August 1974 a ceasefire had been in effect under UN supervision, without a permanent peace agreement, because Turkey demanded recognition of the loss of territories and the pseudostate. She concluded that Russia sought, in her view, the humiliation of Ukraine and not peace. #Ουκρανία #Ειρήνη #Πόλεμος (translated)

FLORENTIA challenged a post about Drama and Serres, which, as she wrote, mentioned 300,000 dead Muslims, coercion of survivors to convert to Christianity, and concealment of events from Europe for 80 years. She characterized these claims as unhistorical and cited the Ottoman census of 1906/1907, according to which the total Muslim population of the Sanjak of Serres, which included Drama, was below 175,000. Regarding the period of the Second Balkan War, in June and July 1913, she stated that the cities were under Bulgarian occupation. She referenced a report by the Carnegie Foundation from 1914, which, as she claimed, recorded that the retreating Bulgarians burned more than 4,000 houses in Serres and killed hundreds of Greek civilians. She added that the Greek Army stopped the destruction and that, based on records from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it had guaranteed by proclamation the safety, property, and religious freedom of all residents. According to her, the Muslims who remained in Macedonia retained their religious rights and their mosques until the Population Exchange. FLORENTIA also stated that, according to the Treaty of Lausanne, approximately 350,000–400,000 Muslims were organized and peacefully relocated from Greece to Turkey. She countered that the number of 1.5 million referred to Greeks from Asia Minor and Pontus, whom, as she wrote, were violently displaced or exterminated by the Young Turks and the Kemalist regime. She concluded by arguing that turning tourist destinations into tools of hatred through false claims and distortion of historical evidence constituted a new practice. #Ιστορία #Δράμα #Σέρρες (translated)

The Lebanese army is beginning a rare three-week joint exercise with the British army and the participation of the United States, with Cyprus observing as an observer, despite the deadlock in the framework agreement for the deployment of the army in the southern part of the country. #Λίβανος #Βρετανία #Στρατός (translated)

Amalia wrote that Major Panagiotis Stoupas, originally from Lefki Messinia, had participated in the Asia Minor Campaign and in the Greco-Italian War. According to her post, during the Occupation, he created a resistance group in mountainous Trifylia and later joined the national resistance organization "Greek Army" (ES). Amalia mentioned that, following attacks by ELAS and with the intervention of British Major Harrington, the leaders of the ES signed on August 29, 1943, the Dyrrachium Pact, which stipulated the dissolution of the organization and the integration of its members into ELAS. She argued that those who had joined national resistance organizations were at risk, if captured by ELAS, of being forced to join them or be killed. According to her, Stoupas disagreed with the agreement and returned to Lefki. On October 10, 1943, strong ELAS forces surrounded the village, burned his house, and believed he had died, but he had escaped. Amalia wrote that later Stoupas joined the Security Battalions, as, in her estimation, thousands of other Greeks did. The post stated that Colonel Dionysios Papadogkonas, Stoupas's former commander, appointed him commander of the Security Battalion of Meligalas in March 1944. Amalia noted that after the ELAS attack on Meligalas, Stoupas moved to Gargalianoi with 100 men and was not in the city during the days of the massacre. After the collapse of the defense in Gargalianoi, he and his men retreated to Pylos. According to Amalia, when ELAS surrounded Pylos on September 24, local authorities sought a surrender agreement, while ELAS promised that there would be no massacres. She wrote that Stoupas accepted the agreement and committed suicide with his pistol at the castle gate, after saying goodbye to his men. She also cited the post-war testimony of Chris Woodhouse, who, she reported, conveyed words from British journalist Richard Capell in favor of choosing the Security Battalions instead of ELAS. #ιστορία #Ελλάδα #πατριωτισμός (translated)

e-Amyna welcomed the new emphasis of the leadership on fortifications, but pointed out that training in digging trenches should also be restored, which it deemed a fundamental military subject that had been neglected in the Greek Army for decades. It considered the assessment from the war in Ukraine regarding the value of fortifications to be correct and the practical application of this to be positive, adding that another lesson was that there would not be bulldozers and armed concrete everywhere. #Στρατός #Εκπαίδευση #Οχυρώσεις (translated)

For twenty years we had remained with an air force and navy of a third world country, but suddenly Marika from Kolokynthou and Savvas from Lamprini are complaining because we only took 300 spike kits and only 128 Aster 30... #όχι_άλλο_κάρβουνο_μωρέ #άμυνα #στρατός #πολιτική (translated)

Good morning to the whole reef... Despite all the Turkish "bravado," the crap has passed the sock and is spilling on the ground... They had learned for a long time to ignore every provocation from them, and now when we respond to their ridiculous invasion exercises with a surprise military exercise across the territory (and indeed very successful), they start the whining... Only mockery and banter in the silly tweets... #Ελλάδα #στρατός #πολιτική (translated)

85 χρόνια συμπληρώνονται σήμερα από την ίδρυση του Εθνικού Απελευθερωτικού Μετώπου, του ΕΑΜ. Το ΕΑΜ και ο στρατός του, ο δοξασμένος ΕΛΑΣ, έγραψαν ένα «νέο ’21». Πολέμησαν το φασίστα Γερμανο-Ιταλό κατακτητή, χτυπήθηκαν από τον αγγλο-αμερικάνικο ιμπεριαλισμό και τίμησαν μέχρι τέλους τον όρκο για «Λεύτερη Ελλάδα». https://t.co/tRF170zhT6 #ΕΑΜ #ΕΛΑΣ #Ανεξαρτησία

✅ Μια σημαντική επένδυση δεκάδων εκατομμυρίων για την παραγωγή drones για την Ελλάδα & το ΝΑΤΟ ετοιμάζεται στη Θεσσαλονίκη. 🔵 Η επένδυση έρχεται να προστεθεί στη μεγάλη ανάπτυξη της στρατιωτικής βιομηχανίας στη χώρα μας τα τελευταία έτη: 👉 Η γερμανική STARK Defence δημιουργεί εργοστάσιο παραγωγής drones στη Θεσσαλονίκη με στόχο την προμήθεια για Ελλάδα και όλες τις χώρες του ΝΑΤΟ 👉 Έως το 2028 θα απασχολεί τουλάχιστον 200 Έλληνες επιστήμονες υψηλής εξιδείκευσης από μηχανικούς αεροδιαστημικής και μηχανολόγους έως ειδικούς ηλεκτρονικών συστημάτων και εξειδικευμένους τεχνικούς συναρμολόγησης. 👉 Ήδη το εργοστάσιο άρχισε να λειτουργεί και σχεδιάζει μεταξύ άλλων και την επιστροφή Ελλήνων του εξωτερικού για τη λειτουργία του με τη μονάδα να καλύπτει όλη την αλυσίδα: από την έρευνα έως την παραγωγή 👉 Μάλιστα για την παραγωγή συνεργάζεται και μια ελληνική startup της Βόρειας Ελλάδας, την GEP Unmanned S.A., με ειδίκευση στο χώρο των UAVs 🟦 Πίσω από την επένδυση στη Θεσσαλονίκη βρίσκεται μία από τις ταχύτερα αναπτυσσόμενες εταιρείες του ευρωπαϊκού defence-tech, αξίας τουλάχιστον 4 δισ. ευρώ ενώ η Ελλάδα γίνεται η 5η χώρα που θα έχει παρουσία η εταιρία, καθώς η αμυντική βιομηχανία στη χώρα μας άρχισε να αναπτύσσεται ξανά 🇬🇷 Για παράδειγμα σημαντικό ποσοστό στην Ασπίδα του Αχιλλέα θα υλοποιήσουν ελληνικές εταιρίες, η ΕΑΒ συμμετέχει σε πολλά προγράμματα όπως ο Εκσυγχρονισμός των F-16, ενώ το νέο δόγμα είναι ότι τουλάχιστον το 25% των εξοπλιστικών προγραμμάτων θα αναλαμβάνουν ελληνικές εταιρίες, για πρώτη φορά στην ιστορία της χώρας. 🔷 Μεταξύ άλλων η Metlen εγκαίνιασε νέες παραγωγικές μονάδες (όπως το M Technologies Defence Hub στον Βόλο) για την κατασκευή εξειδικευμένων αμυντικών υποσυστημάτων ενώ η ΓΕΤ ΤΕΡΝΑ υπέγραψε συμφωνίες στρατηγικής συνεργασίας με κολοσσούς όπως η Airbus Defence and Space (δορυφορικές επικοινωνίες) και η Rheinmetall (τακτικά χερσαία συστήματα). Μάλιστα ο ελληνικός στρατός ήδη παράγει δικά του drones, ενώ στόχος είναι η παραγωγή 4.000 μονάδων το έτος. #Δrones #ΑμυντικήΒιομηχανία #Θεσσαλονίκη