Happy OXI Day to all Greeks!

In the darkest days of WW2, Greece “dared to question" the invincibility of the Axis powers, pushing Italian forces into Albania & derailing Hitler& #39;s master plan. An effort that Roosevelt, Stalin & Churchill felt changed the outcome of WW2.

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇺🇸" title="Flagge der Vereinigten Staaten" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge der Vereinigten Staaten"> US President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Greece’s Oxi day heroics.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇩🇪" title="Flagge von Deutschland" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Deutschland">Adolph Hitler acknowledging the bravery of the Greeks in Oxi Day.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇬🇧" title="Flagge des Vereinigten Königreiches" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge des Vereinigten Königreiches">Winston Churchill crediting Greece with changing the outcome of the war via their Oxi Day heroics.

He also famously said “Greeks don’t fight like heroes, heroes fight like Greeks”

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇷🇺" title="Flagge von Russland" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Russland"> Joseph Stalin crediting the change in outcome of World War 2 due to the Greek heroics on Oxi Day.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇫🇷" title="Flagge von Frankreich" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Frankreich"> Charles de Gaul also praising the Greek resistance on Oxi Day.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇬🇧" title="Flagge des Vereinigten Königreiches" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge des Vereinigten Königreiches"> Sir Robert Anthony Eden, Britain’s Minister of War, emphasizing the Greeks disrupting Hitler’s plans and thus changing the outcome of the war on Oxi Day.