The History of Exarcea in Greece

In 1974, there were free elections in Greece. And the students were fucking heroes. They had destroyed a dictatorship. So for almost 40 years, there was a law that's at cops weren't allowed to enter universities because people were like, Oh, I don't know, maybe giving students defensible spaces is good for our democracy Because it was a destroyed dictatorship. This was the 1982 academic sanctuary law in 2019, in 2019, a right wing government scrap that law. But yeah, but exarcea centered around, not centered, whatever. The polytechnic is inexarcea. And this became like kind of how this neighborhood became under anarchist control. In the 1980s