Correction, German royal (if you're talking about Otto which I assume you are). But I wouldn't say he is a national hero exactly, and that was post revolution. The one person who almost fits that profile would be Lord Byron, but he wasn't a royal, and he was more similar to the American leftists who go to fight in Rojava etc, and he is definitely justified to be thought of as a national hero.
Love them tho and their anarchists are still based.
Our anarchists are annoying and infiltrated af. The reason people think they are based is because Greece has a really long history of low tolerance towards police and protests are very normalised, so it is a lot easier and more acceptable for people to clash with police. Most of the time black bloc anarchists just make shit harder for everyone though because they clash with leftists, attract cops at really inopportune times and places and give them excuses and justifications to make repression more harsh.
BTW Otto was 17 when he became king of Greece. They literally just came and said "here's a little kid, he's your king now".
Nah no need to. I don't expect people from the other side of the world to be highly knowledgeable of everything going on here. In fact most people here aren't even that knowledgeable lol.
But yeah it was definitely super weird. Greece only became independent thanks to it serving the interests of the 3 "Great Powers", France, Britain and Russia. So throughout its early modern history it was dependent on them. Meanwhile they were competing with each other which translated into lots of shit flinging and unrest in Greece because that's what happens when 3 different countries are competing for influence. So every now and then they were like "OK shit is getting weird here, here, have a new king appointed by us".
Correction, German royal (if you're talking about Otto which I assume you are). But I wouldn't say he is a national hero exactly, and that was post revolution. The one person who almost fits that profile would be Lord Byron, but he wasn't a royal, and he was more similar to the American leftists who go to fight in Rojava etc, and he is definitely justified to be thought of as a national hero.
Our anarchists are annoying and infiltrated af. The reason people think they are based is because Greece has a really long history of low tolerance towards police and protests are very normalised, so it is a lot easier and more acceptable for people to clash with police. Most of the time black bloc anarchists just make shit harder for everyone though because they clash with leftists, attract cops at really inopportune times and places and give them excuses and justifications to make repression more harsh.
BTW Otto was 17 when he became king of Greece. They literally just came and said "here's a little kid, he's your king now".
I will now admit I know nothing and delete my post. My bad
Nah no need to. I don't expect people from the other side of the world to be highly knowledgeable of everything going on here. In fact most people here aren't even that knowledgeable lol.
But yeah it was definitely super weird. Greece only became independent thanks to it serving the interests of the 3 "Great Powers", France, Britain and Russia. So throughout its early modern history it was dependent on them. Meanwhile they were competing with each other which translated into lots of shit flinging and unrest in Greece because that's what happens when 3 different countries are competing for influence. So every now and then they were like "OK shit is getting weird here, here, have a new king appointed by us".