A lot has been said and are being said about November 17th, the day when the handiwork of the tanks in 1973 Athens culminated, and when so many pure soulds fell so that mongers, collaborators and murderers could hijack them, and with the force of the People for Justice, Bread, Education, Freedom, Democracy and National Independence they encroached on leadership, rendering to dust all the dreams of a generation of Greeks which, despite having fought against the regime, has been burdened ever since the very next day with the shame that does not belong to them, but yet was heaped on by the culprits that created it.
The generation of the Polytechnic IS NOT THE GENERATION OF COLLABORATORS WHO UP UNTIL TODAY ARE STILL ABUSING IT FOR THEIR OWN PROFIT AND INTERESTS. Just like the generation of 1940 is not the generation of Tsolakoglou and Rallis and the black marketers and hoods who, however, lived at the same time period.
The generation of the Polytechnic is every Greek who did not stoop to selling out the fatherland to foreigners, who did not stoop to being a stooge for every foreign element, banker and corporate tycoon, who did not stoop to accepting a political party rhetoric without applying this rhetoric in his/her everyday life despite being cheated with it by the political party leaders, every Greek who regardless their personal issues will bear arms and go to the front to defend our Country just like that mobilization/recruitment to defend our Cyprus in 1974, when in one big wave the Greek People, that very generation of the Polytechnic, swarmed to enlist voluntarily to defend it, and the traitors turned them back claiming (as usual) a lack of weapons and infrastructure. And let us not forget that at the time, it was a so called military junta at the helm…
I am a member of the generation of the Polytechnic and I have a victim in my family on the day of the Polytechnic, and ever since those embezzlers and mongers of my generation have hunted and harrowed me to the point of extinction exactly because in everything I did, I have wanted for me and my compatriots and my Country, Bread, Education, Freedom, Democracy, Justice, National Independence and I have been and will continue fighting for them.
For this purpose, therefore, and to reinstate symbolically my generation, separating it from the parallel generation of covert totalitarians, embezzlers and usurping collaborators and traitors of the Greek People who dare attempt to be associated with any generation of the Greek People, I am going, by myself and my daughter, just with the Greek Flag and the real symbol of the Peopleʼs Power- that is the article of the Constitution 120- to walk from my house in N. Irakleion, Attiki, to the Polytechnic where I will pay sincere homage to those who, on that day, risked everything for the dream of a Free, Independence and Prosperous Greece. I will set out at 9 in the morning of Thursday, November 17th 2011, go through the Irakleion square, through N. Ionia, Pefkakia, Perissos up to the train station of Ano Patissia, and from there take Patission avenue all the way to the Polytechnic.
At this moment, from the bottom of my heart, this is my personal tribute to my father who fought for years for these ideals, and to every single one of my fellow citizens that did the same then, in 1973 and at any other moment in our History.
Olga Georgiou Yeritsidou