History of Europe

The downfall of the Commission for '21... the "dictator" Ioannis Kapodistrias

Mr. Aristides Hatzis systematically uses the provocation even if he "pulls" or even falsifies the historical facts to promote his ethno-nihilistic conceptions of history. In fact, lately he has been systematically dealing with... Kapodistrias, whom he called a "dictator" in a recent text, posted on the official Twitter account of the "Committee for the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Revolution of 1821". Text that caused a real storm. Let's read this passage:

GIORGOS KARAMBELIAS

"For Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first democratic and liberal constitutions are a "razor in the hands of a small child". Kapodistrias arrived in Aegina in January 1828, while he already accepted the position of Governor in August 1827. As he considers the Constitution of Troizena a particularly dangerous razor, he suspends it and essentially declares a dictatorship as he concentrates all power in his hands. This is the end of the First Hellenic Republic. But the democratic and liberal Greeks did not give up. They continued to fight for democracy and rights. Neither the modernizing Kapodistrian dictatorship, nor the Bavarians, nor foreign powers could force them to tolerate an authoritarian regime."

But it is not the first time that Mr. Hatzis uses Kapodistrias to reinforce his ethnonihilistic views. A month and a half ago, wanting to mobilize the deeply orthodox Kapodistrias against the Church, in relation to the closing of the Churches in articles (22/03/2020) and interviews he directly provoked the feeling of the Orthodox Greeks by exclusively attributing the containment of the 1828 epidemic to closing of the churches.

"How Kapodistrias closed the churches and defeated the epidemic" (protagon.gr). Making a completely "ideological use of history", i.e. distorting it, he presents an article (in 285, ed. 3), of a health regulation with super-traconian articles, which Kapodistrias had issued as the most important measure to combat the epidemic!

At the same time, Mr. Hatzis, questions the fact that the epidemic of 1828 was caused by the Arabs of Ibrahim! Because something like that would perhaps be "racist", "against the Arabs", even if they were an occupying army and would remind us of immigration today. Thus, he argued on more than one occasion that the "Greeks blame the Egyptians, that we got it from them. It's hard to find out anymore." READ THE INTERESTING CONTINUATION AT THE SOURCE