Eleftherios Venizelos Dies in Exile

Eleftherios Venizelos, leader of the Venezelists and a revered titan of Greek politics, has passed away still in exile after his ousting by the military in 1935. Venizelos was a passionate contributor to the Greek multi-party system and a figure who was perhaps unrivaled in how much he influenced the Greek national conciousness. However, it will not be his successes that Eleftherios Venizelos will be remembered for, but rather his many failings. It was Venizelos who championed the destructive force of republicanism in this country, and it was Venizelos' senseless revisionism that saw our nation nearly annihilated in the Greco-Turkish War of 1919. Every single problem that Greece faces today can be laid at the feet of Venizelos as the main source of all of our nation's woes. He was a revolutionary, a statesman, and a political pioneer; he was a rabble-rouser, a warmonger, and a failure. What more needs to be said about Eleftherios Venizelos other than that we are glad he shall never rear his face in Greece again after all the pain he has caused.