The issue of the pink flag at the Greek consulate in the USA, which was rightly taken down by order of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was a major issue in the Greek press, since it was misrepresenting the holiest symbol of Hellenism, on which our Army swears an oath, while it adorns state buildings and the borders of Greek territory.
Suddenly, however, we saw a great wave of late annoyance from many experts and non-experts within the country, who declared themselves surprised and opposed, since the pink Greek flag was "art", like the well-remembered 1986 film, "bullets fall like hail", with the well-known and then well-known reactions of the Greek society.
Indeed, the Minister of Labour himself, Mr. Adonis Georgiadis, parties such as SYRIZA, Eleftherias Eleftherias and others have expressed their disgust at censorship in art.
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But all those who are concerned about the pink flag which, as we mentioned, falsifies the highest Greek national symbol, why do they not say anything about censorship in art, (films and comics) with a historical national character?
For this issue we present Mr. Papa Konstantinos Pappas, Illustrator/Cartoonist, and owner of the comic "60 km out of Ankara", and we show everything he said on the occasion of the above incident at the Greek Consulate in the USA.
The k.Papas in a post said that: "I am very concerned about media censorship in art when the same media is bothered by my comic strip "60 km outside Ankara", the poster of Greek soldiers of the 1940s period.
Today we are being told about undemocratic practices, about an authoritarian regime, authoritarian tendencies, and violation of basic human rights, especially when it comes to art.
But where were they all in my case, in my censorship?
In my case, they were with my censors, they maligned me, they defamed me, they tried to damage my artistic work, they cut me off from public debate and discourse, so let us be honest for once, there is no question of preserving human rights and freedom of speech, there is no question of opposing the censorship of art, there is no question of political sympathies.
If you cater to one narrative over something else, you're either with some or you're with others, there is no social culture.
The same hypocrites stand with the artist (with the pink Greek flag) because her message serves their own political agendas.
If your message speaks of sacrifices ( of our ancestors in Asia Minor) ideals, the concept of duty and the concept of homeland then you don't fit in the artistic space".
The problem for him concerns the prevailing mentality regarding art in all its manifestations in our country, as he considers it to be a slave to an agenda of political correctness, which has only caused harm to society.
Banned Greek historical films that we don't watch on Greek television
For years there have been a number of Greek historical films, made with the assistance of great and established actors and actresses, which are either not shown, or are rarely shown, raising questions about the cinematographic art in our country and its own narrative.
Films such as "The Brave of the North" which presents the Bulgarian massacres in Western Thrace, N. Gazogiannis' "Eleni" which tells a personal story during the civil war, the film "Venizelos" which shows the terrible period of the occupation of Thessaloniki in 1912 and the conflict with the palace, etc.
For some unspecified reason for years, historical films, magazines, documentaries, which refer to hot periods of the Greek state in every respect, have been absent from television and we are talking about state television, not private television.
Many people believe that there is probably a tendency to de-nationalise the Greeks, since any reference to the homeland and historical periods constitutes, for some, 'extreme right'.
This is a dark period, during which, as some within "Greek art" will go, they will even ask for books to be burned that promote the historical feeling of the Greek nation, which in every tragedy always turned back to its ideals and values, only to go forward again.
