As if today February 28 historical and important events happened both in our country and in the rest People.
So let’s go back in time a little to see what happened like today…
1770
Theodore Orloff sails to Mani and incites its inhabitants to revolt against the Turks. (Orlovic)
1826
The Turkish-Egyptians occupy the islets of Dolma and Poros in the Messolonghi lagoon and force the Eastern garrison to abandon their positions. All communication of the besieged city with the outside world is now impossible.
1854
The Republican Party of the USA is founded, with the main goal of abolishing slavery.
1943
“Sound trumpets…” recites Aggelos Sikelianos at the funeral of the great Greek poet Kostis Palamas in the First Cemetery, which is developing into the leading – perhaps – resistance event during the German occupation, with the participation of thousands of people.
On February 27, 1943, the great Greek poet Kostis Palamas passed away at the age of 84. He was seriously ill when grace met him at his home, at 3 Periandrou Street in Plaka. A few days earlier, on February 9, 1943, he had taken his wife Maria.
The news of the death of the most prominent poet of the generation of 1880 spread with lightning speed in occupied Athens. “Last night an incomprehensible news came to us. Unbelievable news. Gero-Palamas died. We had forgotten that he was mortal” writes Ioanna Tsatsou in her personal diary.
From the early morning of February 28, a crowd of people began to gather at the First Cemetery in Athens to pay their last respects to the great poet, but also to express their anti-occupation feelings.
At 11 a.m., the funeral service began, presided over by the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Damascene. The spiritual world of the country gave a thunderous “attendance”: Spyros Melas, Marika Kotopoulis, Konstantinos Tsatsos, George Theotokas, Angelos Sikelianos, Ilias Venezis, Ioanna Tsatsou, George Katsimbalis, etc.
Sicilian Angel
The official authorities, trying to limit the meaning of the pallaic gathering, were represented at the funeral by the late Prime Minister Konstantinos Logothetopoulos himself and by representatives of the German and Italian occupation forces.
This did not prevent the funeral from being turned into an event of patriotic fervor.
“Greece rests on this coffin” aptly said the poet Angelos Sikelianos (1884-1951), giving the spirit of the people’s like-minded presence at the funeral. And “with a voice as strong as ever” he recited the poem Palamas, which he had written in the early hours of February 28 in honor of the great poet:
Sound the trumpets… Bells thundering,
shake the country far and wide…
Beat the drums of war… The awesome ones
flags, unfurl in the air!
But you people, that your poor speech,
A hero took her and raised her to the stars,
now share the divine moonlight
of his perfect glory, lift him up in your arms
giant flamburo and above us
that we praise him with a burning heart,
say with a single breath: “Palamas!”
may the world cry out his name!
Sound the trumpets… Bells thundering,
shake the country far and wide…
Beat the drums of war… The awesome ones
flags, unfurl in the air!
Greece rests on this coffin! a people,
lifting his eyes he sees her…
and the Temple burns unbroken like a shelter,
and from high clouds of Glory he thinks of him.
What about us, where the unspoken pulse
of eternity, glitters this hour
Orpheus, Heraclitus, Aeschylus, Solomon
they accept the holy soul the trophy bearer,
which after her work deeply established
on this earth with an equal Mind,
the Trismacarius now goes up to Iachos
with the immortal gods to dance.
Sound the trumpets… Bells thundering,
shake the country far and wide…
Voga Payana! The flags are awesome
of Lefteria unfold in the air!
Afterwards, the poet Sotiris Skipis (1881-1952), one of the last representatives of the New Athenian School, shockingly recited his poem To Kostis Palamas.
Through the invisible bars
of our vast prison,
inside our dark cell,
you couldn’t stand the pain of the Tribe
and you fell like an oak tree
from the blows
of some black lumberjacks
in the dark of the night of tragedy,
without waiting for the ray
of the new dawn.
And you fell like an earthquake
a marble pillar falls
of some ancient temple.
Like a temple, where it is struck
from the volleys of the barbarians.
Like the Parthenon,
hero, poet of the Century.
Eyes fixed by so many
calamities,
no tears will be shed for You.
They will cry for you one day
the same ones who kill us
one – one
as if waking up from their drunkenness
and what deserts they see
scattered on their way
in countless hearts.
You leave, you go on your journey
the Acherusius, the sternum,
oh our firstborn brother,
but look how I tell you
the Greeks greet you.
Everyone a verse of yours
singing melody,
they pop you out
with your many songs,
that buzz like bees
above April flowers,
as if foretelling the Resurrection,
oh our great rhapsode.
When the funeral procession ended, Spyros Melas, Angelos Sikelianos and young children lifted the coffin and headed towards the burial site. At the time when the coffin was going to be deposited in the earth, the representative of the conqueror approached to lay a wreath. Then, the writer Giorgos Katsimbalis began to sing the National Anthem: “I know you from the edge…”. The gathered crowd followed, “timidly at first – describes Konstantinos Tsatsos – then the voice conquered the whole world, melodious. It was the most touching moment. People were singing passionately. Someone shouted Long live the freedom of the spirit. But the people wanted pure freedom and shouted Long Live Freedom!
1959
The Greek Parliament rejects with 170 votes against 117 the motion of no confidence against the government of Constantinos Karamanlis, which signed the Zurich and London agreements on the Cyprus issue, declaring that it is “the happiest days of my life”. The ERE MPs applaud, while Sofokles Venizelos leaves shouting: “Long live the Union”.
1991
The Gulf War ends as Iraqi and Allied soldiers are ordered to cease attacks.
Source: sansimera.gr
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