In a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary since Athens was liberated from German occupation at the end of WWII – on October 12, 1944 – the Greek flag was raised on the Acropolis on Saturday, ANA reports.
The event was addressed by the government’s vice president, Panagiotis Pikrammenos, and attended by National Defence Minister Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos, Deputy Defence Minister Alkiviadis Stefanis and representatives of parliament, the political parties and the chief of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff, General Christos Christodoulou, as well as Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis and large numbers of Athenians.
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