Metaxism

Metaxism, is an Authoritarian Unity Ideology. It is corporatist, culturally far-right and believes in Constitutional Monarchism. He wants to create a "Third Hellenic Civilization" (first one being Ancient Greece and second being Byzantium). Metaxism believes that minorities within Greece should assimilate to the Greek national identity and that it should be forbidden to use languages other than Greek in public or in private.

[[File:Metaxi.png]] Ioannis Metaxas regime
After WW1 and the Greco-Turkish War in 1922, Greece saw a huge financial decline, millions of Greek immigrants from Minor Asia flooding urban areas and a lack of political stability which led to many coup d'etats by the Venizelists. Under these circumstances in 1935, a rigged Monarchist referendum was staged that brought King George II of Greece to the Throne. In January 1936, the King appointed prime minister Ioannis Metaxas. Metaxas promoted  neutrality in WW1 and was a Monarchist  Authoritarian  Anti-Venizelist. On the 4th of August 1936, Ioannis Metaxas dissolved all political parties in the parliament, including his own. Ioannis Metaxas started reforming the country. He promoted the idea that there were 3 Hellenic Civilizations. The  Ancient Greek  (1st), the  Byzantine Greek (2nd) and the current one, the Modern Greek (3rd) and that Greece should make progress by looking back at its predecessors. He started exiling  KKE members and some Venizelist figures and started reforming a Collectivized Centrist Economic Plan that would help the farmers and workers of Greece. He militarized Greece and acknowledged that foreign minorities in Greece existed but should speak Greek, including Jews. He was inspired by other Fascist movements in Interwar Europe, enforcing the Fascist Salute and the idea of a Unifying Leader (Archigos) but was distanced from other  Fascist Countries diplomatically. He also tried to keep a more neutral approach to external policies. He met Goebbels and had talks with  Mussolini but was more aligned with the British until the outbreak of WW2 in Greece in 1940. Greece saw temporary success against Italy in Italian Albania but lost to the Germans in 1941 despite British and Australian support. Metaxas died in 1941 before seeing the end of the war and the Government-In-Exile moved to Egypt under the leadership of King George II. While in Greece the 'Hellenic State' was established as an Axis Puppet State.

[[File:GeorgiosGrivas.png]] Military career of Georgios Grivas
Georgios Grivas was born in Cyprus in 1897 or 1898 from an Anglophilic Greek rich family. He was trained in a Military Academy in Athens and fought in the Greco-Turkish War of 1922. Then, when WW2 broke out he fought against the Italians in Albania until 1941. After the occupation of Greece by the Germans he established 'Organization X' in Athens. It's main goal was to get rid of the Communist resistnance no matter the cost. It is also said the Grivas was assisted by the Collaborationist Greek Puppet State and the British in the end of the war. After the war, Georgios Grivas took part in the 'White Terrorism' in Greece during the Civil War. At that time he was also politically involved with the People's Party without any big success. However in 1955 he returned to Cyprus where he was the military leader of EOKA, a nationalist Greek Organization who tried to free Cyprus from British Imperialism. In 1967 when the Greek Military Junta had taken over in Greece he was a big supporter of Papadopoulos' ideas. But in 1974 he returned to Cyprus where he established EOKA 2, in order to fight the Turkish invasion in the island. He died in Cyprus in January of 1974 in the age of 76.

[[File:Papadopoulos.png]] Presidency of Georgios Papadopoulos
In 1967 a Group of High Ranking Greek Military Officials were preparing to launch a coup d'etat in Greece with the support of the USA. However that failed leading to an unstable situation where Medium Ranking Military officers were able to launch a coup d'etat instead. In the morning of 21st of April 1967 Georgios Papadopulos had established a Military 'Junta'. The political parties were banned, Communist politicians and writers were exiled in prisons in Long Island (Makronisos). The new Government implemeted a series of cultural, economical and political reforms. They restored the old form of Greek language and empowered nationalism by mottos, sings and banners. The motto of the regime was 'Patris, Thriskeia, Oikogeneia' (Fatherland, Religion , Family ' that promoted traditional values. Economically, the regime brought reforms that made the popular among Greek Farmers and Workers and modernized Greece as well as helpened the Greek economy. In December of 1967, King Constantine II made an anti-coup with the support of by then prime minister Kollias that failed. He was self-exiled in London but for stability's reasons the regime kept him in the papers as King until 1973 where Papadopulos tried to 'liberalize' the country with minor democratic reforms and refferendums. The state also interved with the Church, ousting all the Liberal Priests with more traditional and loyal ones. The regime was said to be American-backed and that maybe true in some extent but after a while the USA was not in Papadopoulos' 'neutrality'. In November of 1973, students revolted by enclosing themselves in the University of Athens (Politechnio), in a matter of hours, while not in the university, a number of students most probably accidentally lost their lives ro random bullets shot in the air. After some months the regime would be coup d'etated (again) by Ioannidis who hated Papadopulos and had American support, he soon lost control of the state and the Junta was finally over in 1974, when the Third Hellenic Republic was declared.

[[File:Golden_Dawn.png]] Golden Dawn
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Personality
Metaxism might be a nationalist and by many called a Fascist however he hates both Fascism and  National Socialism. Unlike his other fascist "colleagues" he does not have any anti-Semitic views.

How to Draw
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 * 1) Draw a ball with eyes and fill it blue
 * 2) Add a white Cross
 * 3) Add a beige Axe (lavrys) in the middle of the cross
 * 4) Add two olive leaf branches surrounding the Axe
 * 5) Add a yellow crown in the top left corner

Friends

 * [[File: Conmon.png]] Constitutional Monarchism - Used during my Regime and also is used in my ally the UK. God save the king!
 * [[File: Nation.png]] Nationalism - Long Live the Nation!
 * [[File: Monarch.png]] Monarchism - The Monarchy is the bedrock of Hellas!
 * [[File: Orth.png]] Orthodox Theocracy - Greek Orthodoxy is the religion of Greece and its people!
 * [[File:Bism.png]] Bismarckism - The German Empire was our greatest ally! Also the King's mother is the sister of the Kaiser.
 * [[File:StratoDictature-Antifurry.png]] Stratocracy - The Hellenic Army is our greatest tool!
 * [[File:Salazar.png]] Salazarism - Me but Portuguese and Catholic.
 * [[File: Franco.png]] Francoism - The same as above but more stratocratic.

Frenemies

 * [[File:Irridentism.png]] Irredentism - Although national unification is a goal to strive towards, it must be done gradually and methodically.
 * [[File:Reactcross.png]] Reactionarism - We must keep progress with the Third Hellenic Civilization but that should be inspired by the First and the Second Hellenic Civilizations!
 * [[File:Cball-UK.png]] Anglophilia - The United Kingdom, after the Great War, is indeed our greatest ally. Even though he [[File:Fash.png]] calls me his puppet!
 * [[File:Sorelia.png]] National Syndicalism - Metaxas was the father of the workers and established the International Worker's Day in Greece, though he also wanted the businessmen to thrive!
 * [[File: Kemal.png]] Kemalism - Like [[File:Venizelos.png]], I won’t forget what you did to my people in the Smyrna Catastrophe, but I don’t want to take your land and instead we should work together and unite against the Italian and German fascist threats. Why remain neutral in WW2 like a coward though?

Enemies

 * [[File: Fash.png]] Fascism - Οχι! Dare to invade me again and I’m going to beat you as I did in 1940!
 * [[File: Nazi.png]] National Socialism - Nazi scum. I’m never joining the Axis!
 * [[File: ML.png]] Marxism–Leninism - Filthy Commies wanting to destroy Hellas.
 * [[File: Lib.png]] Liberalism - Degenerates who will destroy Hellas!
 * [[File: Stalin.png]] Stalinism - Stop treating the Pontic Greeks like shit, Communist scum!
 * [[File:Venizelos.png]] Venizelism - You should have listened to me in WW1, now we stopped your efforts for an unholy republican Greece. Don't even get me started on how you kinda admired him [[File:Fash.png]] in the end.
 * [[File:Parti.png]] Particracy - All political parties are now banned, including my own.

Wikipedia

 * Metaxism
 * Ioannis Metaxas
 * 4th of August Regime
 * Freethinkers' Party
 * National Youth Organisation (Greece)