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Re: Why was Britain defeated by EOKA?

Postby B25 » Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:10 pm

Don Kelley wrote:Cyprus is the next domino to fall. What Price Eoka now?

What price freedom, people die for it!
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Re: Why was Britain defeated by EOKA?

Postby Maximus » Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:42 pm

Don Kelley wrote:Cyprus is the next domino to fall. What Price Eoka now?


stupid question, but ill still answer it.

everyone pays for everything in this world, in one currency or another.
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Re: Why was Britain defeated by EOKA?

Postby humanist » Wed Jun 13, 2012 9:41 pm

I applaud the EOKA fighters for persevering to FREE Cyprus from the ruling British Colonialists. The rest is history and the movement shall not die. I am proud that my grandfather was a fighter in the 50's.
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Re: Why was Britain defeated by EOKA?

Postby Viewpoint » Wed Jun 13, 2012 10:54 pm

humanist wrote:I applaud the EOKA fighters for persevering to FREE Cyprus from the ruling British Colonialists. The rest is history and the movement shall not die. I am proud that my grandfather was a fighter in the 50's.


All terrorists....and you support them.
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Re: Why was Britain defeated by EOKA?

Postby Bananiot » Wed Jun 13, 2012 11:17 pm

The countdown for the calamity for Cyprus started on April 1st 1955, when EOKA exploded the first bombs. It was an act doomed to fail, but as the title of this thread shows, some people still believe, even with the benefit of hindsight, that EOKA defeated Britain.
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Re: Why was Britain defeated by EOKA?

Postby Me Ed » Thu Jun 14, 2012 1:47 am

Viewpoint wrote:
humanist wrote:I applaud the EOKA fighters for persevering to FREE Cyprus from the ruling British Colonialists. The rest is history and the movement shall not die. I am proud that my grandfather was a fighter in the 50's.


All terrorists....and you support them.

Humanist, your grandfather was a true hero who freed Cyprus from colonial rule.

So I take it VP that if Cyprus was 82% TC and 18% GC, Cyprus would still be a British Colony, unless TC terrorists fought to free it?
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Re: Why was Britain defeated by EOKA?

Postby repulsewarrior » Thu Jun 14, 2012 2:20 am

...indeed, if the British had supported the Cypriot people with water, electricity and roads, things might have been different.

it took a struggle for liberation, and then the drive of the Cypriot people themselves to have such basic modern utilities.

...at least the Brits left us as a legacy a Rule of Law, for which we can be thankful.
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Re: Why was Britain defeated by EOKA?

Postby Viewpoint » Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:06 pm

Me Ed wrote:
Viewpoint wrote:
humanist wrote:I applaud the EOKA fighters for persevering to FREE Cyprus from the ruling British Colonialists. The rest is history and the movement shall not die. I am proud that my grandfather was a fighter in the 50's.


All terrorists....and you support them.

Humanist, your grandfather was a true hero who freed Cyprus from colonial rule.

So I take it VP that if Cyprus was 82% TC and 18% GC, Cyprus would still be a British Colony, unless TC terrorists fought to free it?


Much better than a GC state with us a minority.
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Re: Why was Britain defeated by EOKA?

Postby kimon07 » Thu Jun 14, 2012 6:23 pm

Don Kelley wrote:Cyprus is the next domino to fall. What Price Eoka now?


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Re: Why was Britain defeated by EOKA?

Postby GreekIslandGirl » Thu Jun 14, 2012 7:09 pm

Viewpoint wrote:
Me Ed wrote:
Viewpoint wrote:
humanist wrote:I applaud the EOKA fighters for persevering to FREE Cyprus from the ruling British Colonialists. The rest is history and the movement shall not die. I am proud that my grandfather was a fighter in the 50's.


All terrorists....and you support them.

Humanist, your grandfather was a true hero who freed Cyprus from colonial rule.

So I take it VP that if Cyprus was 82% TC and 18% GC, Cyprus would still be a British Colony, unless TC terrorists fought to free it?


Much better than a GC state with us a minority.


Briefing for the British Defence and Overseas Policy Committee, 27th April 1964 :


"The only two solutions which could bring peace and order to Cyprus are enosis or the establishment of a unitary Republic dominated by the Greek-Cypriot majority."
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