Eleni Vlachou

On the day that a group of far-right military officers seized power in Greece, in the early hours of April 21, 1967, Kathimerini's then-publisher, Eleni Vlachou, had the journalistic wherewithal to press the button on the tape recorder on her desk. "Not to be pessimistic, but we won't be getting out of this predicament anytime soon. And the right, the so-called right… It's done for.

A three-day conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the restoration of Greek democracy, a period known as the Metapolitefsi, is scheduled to take place from February 29 to March 2 at the National Gallery in Athens.

The 2017 fact-based drama "The Post" revolves around the Washington Post's decision in 1971 to publish the Pentagon Papers. A similar thriller unfolded at the offices of the Sunday Times of London a few years earlier, in 1968.