Smyrna 1922

"One of the keenest impressions which I brought away with me from Smyrna was a feeling of shame that I belonged to the human race."
US. Consul at Smyrna, George Horton

The Smyrna affair...has been somehow soft-pedaled and almost expunged from the memory of present day man."
Henry Miller

It's because of the truth of the Henry Miller statement that I commemorate Symrna & it victims by highlighting the 1978 Greek film by Nikos Koundouros called "1922", which tries to give some idea of what happened to it's Greek & Armenian population. No fictional film can convey the real horrors of what really happen there, yet even so the film is so harrowing that the only scene I can really show is this clip of where a Greek in hiding goes to hand himself over to a Turkish general. For further accounts of this all but forgotten tragedy, I recommend the Marjorie Housepian Dobkin book "Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City", and also the book "The Blight of Asia" written by George Horton, who was the American Consul at the time & an eyewitness to the terrible events.

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[progonolatreia]

leuteria stin m,asia

tora zeite san douloi ystera tha exete oli tin m,asia na diafenteute..

sikoste kefali pagiades i m,asia einai klironomia ton papoudon sas,,

min ta xarizetai stous mameloukous

[unfukkkmee]

@burakant CONSTANTINOPLE IS GREEK

DEATH TO MONGOLISTAN

CANCER TO U

[78dess]

This Is About A Belly Dancer!!

I Can See How Hurt The Turks Are In There Responses!!!! Very Agressive...Not Calm....

I Live In Australia And I Have Seen How In Suburbs Of Australia Are Being Overtaken By Turkish Muslims. They Will Take Anything That Is Not Their Own And Make It There Own!!

Not Only Have Your Ancestors Destroyed Greece. In Todays Times You Are Destroying The Whole World.

Some Of The Responses I Have Read Seem To Be By Young People. Still Very In-Mature.

[Igotangry]

oohhhh ugly fat gayreek bitch. her ass is like a jerrycan, tun. I bet like 2/3 of greeks she was an travesty turned from man to woman. faggot gayreeks.

[Igotangry]

greeks lived like faggots greeks run like faggots when Ataturk saved Turks in İzmir. even in wartime faggot greeks mind and heart was with their ass below their loin. the only part greeks have working 1-to be get fucked from ass 2-to run away like chickens. greeks are chickhens running and living with no head on their top.

[BobtjeBlues]

TOP....!!!!

[IanHunedoara8]

Smyrna was a city of Greeks Turks, Armenians and Jews. The city prospered as an exporter of quality high figs and fine tobacco. Smyrna was truly an international city, a sad victim of megali-mania- ultranationalism gone mad.

[IanHunedoara8]

Many belly dancers were Gyfto-Roma and were trained to dance since childhood. Women dancers from 100 years ago were built strong like her, big girls.

[Sodnal]

Who let the Turk in? LOL

[hercules14141]

gia sou file mou 8elo na katebaso olo to ergo afffto kai an ginete sta elinika kai agglika nane ala me ipotitlous