THE POLYTECHNIC OF RESISTANCE - "Bread, education, freedom"athens, greece - 2025In the 1970s, Greece lived under the dictatorship of the colonels — a time suspended between fear and enforced silence.
Universities had become islands of secret thought, places where young people dreamed of finding their own voice.
In Athens, the Polytechnic became the heart of that fever: students, workers, and artists breathing as one.
It was November 1973 when they occupied the building, planting radios, slogans, and courage in its courtyards.
From inside, they broadcast words of freedom, breaking through the monotony of military propaganda.
But the regime struck back with force, sending tanks to crush the uprising. The event exposes the junta's brutality to the world, leading to the deposition of Papadopoulos and Dimitrios Ioannidis.
The dictatorship would fall soon after, yet the Polytechnic remained a sacred site of collective memory.
Today, every November, the streets of Athens fill with new generations remembering.
