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The tell-tale busts at Greece’s first WW2 battlefield

The busts of lieutenant Alexandros Diakos and colonel Konstantinos Davakis tell the stories of Greece’s glorious fight against fascism, but also of their own tragic fate.

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By Desolation Road
July 9th, 2020
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Our vision at Desolation Road is to shed light, through first-class texts and visuals, to the roadside relics, the hidden stories, the lesser-known places and the abandoned remnants of Greece's contemporary times, which lay scattered all over the country.
From the old tuberculosis clinics at the mountains, to the islets of exile or the WW2 resistance battlegrounds, the hidden stories of each place provide a deeper understanding for the culture of the modern civilization of Greece and Europe.
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