Glossary of the Greek military junta

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During 1967–1974 Greece’s military rulers used a special vocabulary as propaganda. The glossary included new terms, borrowed phrases, and old words repurposed for their message, with some coming from Greece’s cultural traditions. Some terms were even fused together for a stronger effect. For example, “O Skotadismos kai i Synodiporia” meant Western and Greek leftists—the internal and external opposition to the junta. The regime mostly spoke in katharevousa, an old form of Greek, with one exception: “Rahokokalia tou laou,” a phrase coined for farmers and the only expression in everyday Greek in their vocabulary.