Interview with Helen Vlachos

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Eleanor Fischer interviews Helen Vlachos for the program "Greece Under the Junta." Vlachos was a newspaper publisher who closed her newspapers and stopped publishing rather than submit to the censorship under the military junta that ruled Greece from 1967-1974. In this interview, she discusses how many newspapers existed in Greece before the coup, and how many exist after while discussing the reasons for the change. She talks about her politics and democracy, and she addresses the role of the press in a free, democratic society. Vlachos states that she would rather risk financial ruin or even jail than submit to censorship from the government.

In the second half of the recording, Vlachos speaks about why she feels comfortable speaking freely to the press. She says that she thinks things will change for the better in Greece.

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