In August 480 BC, a handful of Greeks managed to change the
course of history helping shape Western civilization as we know it. It took
nearly 2,500 years for an act of defiance as significant as the battle of Thermopylae
to take place again and the parallels between these two historic events couldn’t
have been starker.
On July 5th 2015, the day of the Greek
Referendum, a coalition government comprising two groups representing vastly
differing political convictions managed to rally the vast majority of the Greek
nation behind a resounding NO vote blocking the advances of the modern-day
enemy, the same way Leonidas and his 300 Spartans had united the conflicting
Hellenic state-nations against the advancing hordes of Persians.
And as a modern-day warrior King, Alexis Tsipras, the Greek Prime Minister has had 72 hours ahead of him between the day after the Referendum and today to fight the battle of his life for the lives of millions of Greek people, exactly as long as Leonidas had fought for three days before his honourable death on the battleground.
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