Artist Christeas

Bulletproof By Artist Gregory Christeas

Dedicated to my daughter Julie and my son Elias

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Athens, April 21, 1967: I was in my studio when I woke up from the noise of the tanks.  A crazy man – Papadopoulos - had decided to save Greece from the Communists, Democrats and anything in-between.

I was sharing an art studio at that time with my best friend, a great artist, Pablo Makri, who helped me finish some paintings for a local gallery in order to get the money I needed to leave for Europe. He later helped me all he could when I returned to Greece to form an underground unit of freedom fighters.  Through another good friend, Nikos Toubakaris, I found out about two students driving back to Germany and hitched a ride with them to Karlsruhe, Germany.  I briefly met at that time with Katina Bexi – she was doing all kinds of odd jobs to make a living, which included making sandwiches for Greek students.  Six years later she helped me survive for more than 3 months, staying in her house, when I was on the run from the dictators in Greece and from my own people who had turned me in.

I also met Dimitri Kolovos who at that time was recruiting students to help organize some kind of resistance through demonstrations in Germany!  Six years later I met him again on my way to Greece; he was one of my suppliers of munitions.  He  was also the Papandreou inside man who drove me and Manos Gritzalis to Malme Sweden to be murdered.

For the rest of the story email me. gregchristeas@yahoo.com

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