On Sunday 28 April, thousands of visitors flooded the historic site of the Shooting Range of Kaisariani to commemorate the 80^th anniversaryof the execution of 200 communists on May Day 1944, and also the 50^th anniversary of the KNE–Odigitis Festival. This event was the first stop on the journey of the 50^th Festival, which will culminate in September.

Thodoris Chionis, member of the PB of the CC of the KKE, stressed, among other things, the following:

“Here, at the first stop of the anniversary events of the 50^th Festival of KNE-Odigitis, we honour the dead and our history, we raise up high the red banner, which has acquired its colour from the blood drippingfrom the struggles of the working class; the red of the dawnof the new world, of the flames and freedom. We are sendinga message calling for stronger counter-attacks for the just cause of the peoples of Greece and Europe (...)

(…) We strengthen the current disputing the anti-popular policy of the governments and the EU in Greece and all over Europe. With a stronger KKE for stronger counter-attacks, for a counter-weightto the government’s policy. With a stronger KKE to convey a message of militant optimism throughout Europe and beyond.”

The speech was followed by a tribute concert to the prominent Greek composer Christos Leondis and his musical work based on the poetry of the great communist poet Yannis Ritsos and other important poets and lyricists.

30.04.2024