This song was sung by Sophia Vembo (the great singer of the war, like Vera Lynn), in 1946 when after being hailed for her resistance, in the classic Churchillian phrase of it is not Greeks who fight like heroes, but heroes like Greeks, Greece now found herself spurned and vilified and plunged into a destructive Civil war, by her very war time allies.

 

This particular performance is from the Greek state TV NET station before it was summarily shut down in rather a fascist way. Today it was performed and broadcast from the ‘pirate’ banned NET station, still struggling to resist.