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Field Marshal Alexandros Papagos (1883-1955)
Commander-in-chief of the Greek National Forces (1940-1941 and 1949)
Prime Minister of Greece (1952-1955)
The man for whom Winston Churchill on December 4, 1940 said:
“I wish Papagos would command the British army”.
The sculpture above, crafted by Iraklis Xanthopoulos,
was wisely placed a few meters away
from the entrance to the Greek Ministry of Defense in Athens.
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This picture was taken through a hedge
that surrounds the little “Pl. Enoplon Dynameon” (= Greek Military Forces sq.)
where the statue was placed in 2000.
Both photographed on October 23, 2022
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