Manolis Glezos, Greek left-wing politician best known for his participation in the World War II resistance, passed away on March 30, 2020 at aged 97.
ERT reported that the wartime icon, who had been hospitalised at the time with gastroenteritis and a urinary infection, died of heart failure.
In 1941 during Greece's occupation by Nazi Germany, Glezos was just 18-years-old when he and his friend Apostolos Santas, a 19-year-old law student, climbed onto the Acropolis in the middle of the night and tore down the flag bearing the swastika unnoticed.
After the war, Glezos was repeatedly elected to Greece's parliament with communist, socialist and leftist parties over a 60-year period.
In 2014, Glezos was elected to the European Parliament with the leftist SYRIZA party, becoming its oldest deputy at the age of 91.
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