Greece
Fascism in Greece has been present in politics since the Greek National Socialist Party of 1932. After WW2, Britain and America supported the Pro-Nazi Fascists in a struggle against the Greek communist KKE movement. In April 1967, a few weeks prior to an election, a military coup d'état took place in Greece and a fascist military government ruled the country from 1967 to 1974. It was called the “Regime of the Colonels”, and was headed by Colonel George Papadopoulos, who had collaborated with the Germans in World War II. The offcial reason given for the coup was that a "communist conspiracy" had infiltrated all levels of society. The contemporary Greek Golden Dawn political party has been described as subscribing to neo-fascist and neo-Nazi beliefs and practices.
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“It was modesty that invented the word “philosopher” in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneself wise to the actors of the spirit—the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)