“Makriyannis”

A man talks about his participation in the organization ‘Makriyannis’ in Montreal.

Μ.Α.: Look…
RES.: You were in this organization?
Μ.Α.: Yes, here in ‘Makriyannis’. Eh… Look what we did, we were organizing rallies, that is, when they had caught Panagoulis, I don’t know if any story continued, and they had him up for execution, we stayed up all night over here so that they wouldn’t execute him, outside the consulates, from these. We couldn’t, we didn’t take up arms, we didn’t throw bombs, we didn’t do such things, we were trying to organize rallies. These… this is what we did. What else?
RES.: For what reason, what was that which pushed you while you were… while you were in Montreal to engage in this struggle?
Μ.Α.: Because look, because we’re Greeks, because we wanted to return to our homeland, because we were hurting for our homeland, this thing. Now, there were those who accused us as well, there were also those who didn’t agree with us, everywhere… there’s all of them.