Μάθιος c. potagas: The first a partisan of Europe

Once reminded to Manali Γλέζο, that with the downloading of the swastika from the Acropolis in May of ’41, with the Lucky Santa… became the first underground of Europe. And he replied that he had told French President Charles De gaulle, when he was sentenced to death, but it is not accurate. The act was catch up with the sacrifice of another age, unknown today, the Μάθιος c. potagas.
The Μάθιος was 17 years old, student of high School of the Municipal, a native of Vitina. When the Germans occupied Greece, he could not bear the slavery of his country. So he decided to blow up the bridge Κουτρουμπή, on the public road, passing out from Vytina and with a gun of his father hit the German column.

As mentioned, however, the same. Γλέζος (“National Resistance 1940 -1945”, Editions Thinker, 2006), from research I did, the Mathios eventually changed his mind, and at noon of 2 May 1941, flew unarmed in the middle of the road, raised his hand and shouted to the column of tanks of the nazis: “Wait a minute. I will enslave us. I’m here alone. But the whole of Greece follows”. Surprised, the commander of the column, he asked the interpreter what this kid says. When the interpreter explained, the governor, with the’ve killed the Potagas. But it’s not enough for the nazi officer to death only. He ordered his soldiers and a boulder crushed the head of the new who dared to stand up in the third Reich and the army of the…
(According to other testimonials, the Mathios actually emptied his gun in σιδερόφρακτη column, was killed, and then the officer ordered to crushed the dead)
In any case, what impresses is that both the Μάθιος c. potagas, and the Γλέζος-Santas, as they themselves have stated about their own practice, they don’t feel that they are doing something special, but that have behind them the entire people, that they act in his name. Put the three of them their own individuality in the service of the dignity of a country. The two have not been arrested (even if they left their fingerprints in the tissue of the Acropolis, in order not to arrest innocent people), the arrogant but a nazi officer probably figured out the size of the grounds of the lonely boy and what accounted for the warning, and broke out all the inhuman fury of the lifeless body of 17-year-old defender of freedom.
The Chinese student who stood in front of a column of tanks in tiananmen square Beijing in 1989 went down in History, thanks to the lenses that recorded the courageous act. The Μάθιο Potagas him forget even the pompous words of the anniversaries. Maybe it’s better that way. Because he was seemingly alone may that at noon on the bridge Κουτρουμπή. Pick up on the teenage shoulders, an entire History of millennia.

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