“October 28 and the legendary “No”, the glorious anniversary of which we honor and celebrate today, with an impressive and exciting parade of civil and military departments, where we had the opportunity to admire new innovative weapon systems, is the greatest and ultimate lesson of the generation of the ’40s to our modern times”, dprayed the President of the Republic, Konstantinos Tasoulasafter the completion of the large military parade in Thessaloniki.
“It is the epic of the 1940s, it is the northern continental epicis the epic of the wife of Pindos that always move and fascinate us”he said and added:
“The repulsion and repulse of Fascist Italy in the snowy mountains of Pindus and in Kalpaki of Epirus as far north as Chimarras and up to Pogradec, it was the Greek answer to the mighty Axis at the time and it is the arrival of hope in the allied camp.
The defense of the fatherland united the ’40 unimaginably Greeks who responded to the national invitation with a smile on their face.
Their example, their patriotism and their self-sacrifice guide us so that, united today in the great and the great, we can cope with every difficulty of the time and take care of a homeland, strong in the face of every threat, for a modern and advanced homeland. For a country that is a pillar of stability and security in the sensitive area of the Southeast Mediterranean where we are.
Happy birthday, long live the 28th of Octoberlong live the nation and know that this example of warriors of the 40’s that we today honor and celebrate, this example o Greek people have it in their heartshe doesn’t forget it always inspires him. Happy birthday.”
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