Greek anti-nazi fighter Manolis Glezos, RIP

From daily The Morning Star in Britain:

Monday, March 30, 2020

Greek anti-fascist resistance hero Manolis Glezos dies at 97

GREEK anti-fascist resistance fighter Manolis Glezos died today aged 97.

Famed for tearing down the swastika flag from the Acropolis with his friend Apostolos Santas at the age of 18 in 1941, Mr Glezos embarked on a lifetime of political struggle, being arrested as recently as 2012 for protesting against EU austerity measures being imposed on Greece.

Mr Glezos was sentenced to death for communist activity in 1948 during the Greek civil war, but this was commuted to life imprisonment in 1950. He was elected to parliament from prison a year later for the United Democratic Left, an organisation with close links to the then banned Communist Party. Released from jail in 1954, he was jailed again in 1958, prompting the Soviet Union to issue a stamp in his honour and award him the Lenin Peace Prize.