Mikis Theodorakis

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The channel TheodorakisFriends started from out of a deep felt connection with the soul of Mikis Theodorakis.

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LIVING IDEOLOGY
The word freedom to Theodorakis is not just an intellectual concept to be discussed at times of leisure. It is an ideology. He himself is a living ideology. An eternal lover of Democracy, for over 60 years he has been engaged in a continuous discussion with people, proposing to them, even now at the time of this writing, a specific lifestyle. It is the path of struggle, of education, of spiritual, moral and mental growth, of respect and responsibility. The strength behind this Promethean struggle is Love. As he wrote in the 1960s: Let us teach our Youth that Democracy means love, Peace means love, Freedom means love. Our great invincible weapon must, at every moment, be Love. For the whole nation, without exception. For the poor and for the rich, for those who are politically to the right or to the left, for the prisonerv and for the guard. Our hatred should be kept only for the handful of our nations enemies which so contemptuously hate us and oppress us.
In a television interview a few years ago, the journalist described Theodorakis as a hero. With his usual sweet humility, he answered, Im not a hero. Heroes die young. I am just a citizen doing his duty.