80 years since the December Revolution... The great Manos Hatzidakis had written: "The December Revolution was not a reaction of communists - as they themselves forged it and as the official history of ghosts attributed it. It was the indignation of the children of the gallery who saw their comrades and their dreams in coffins, from bullets fired by traitors and fascists, wearing blue cloaks of nationalism. And all these Greek scum with the official support of the then young state, had an enemy: the soul of the children of the gallery. Millions of Greek children who believed in liberation, but found themselves immediately facing the same gendarme, the same judge, the same callous responsible persons that they faced just a few years ago, when there were still Germans. And they wanted, before being locked in their gallery, to protest by shouting for the last time. And then to fall silent – ​​forty years now (forty years I have been holding them inside me and working on them to say them someday). No, the national resistance was not the work of the communists or the Egyptian nationalists. Between these two fatal poles lies a Greece that dreams and, betrayed countless times, is mortally wounded. And then it breaks out – it doesn’t matter under which flag. And whether it wins or is defeated, it expresses despair and indignation.” The historian of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Vasiliki Lazou, in the studio of the militaire channel, tells the story of the December 1944 uprisings, as it happened and not as some want to present it to us. Vasiliki Lazou is a graduate of the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Athens. She completed her postgraduate studies at the University of Essex in the UK, with a focus on oral and comparative history. She defended her doctoral thesis in 2010 at the Department of Political Science and History of Panteion University. From 2012 to 2015 she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology of the University of Thessaly, with a focus on the development of innovative interactive environments for the dissemination of scientific knowledge for the Museum of the City of Volos. She has participated in conferences and has published articles for the period 1940-1949 in collective volumes, in scientific journals and the press. She served as editor of the historical publications of the newspapers Eleftherotypia, Eleftheros Typos, Ependytis and Documento. She was a member of the organizational and scientific committee of the events “Athens Free. October 12, 1944” and for many years a member of the board of directors of the Society for the Salvation of Historical Archives (EDIA). She worked for 15 years in secondary education and for the two years 2015-2017 in the Education, Culture and Sports Sector of the General Secretariat for the Coordination of Government Work. At the heart of her research interests are aspects of the Occupation and the Greek Civil War in cities, such as the administration of justice, the issue of internal refugees and public ceremonies. Through her research work, she has utilized previously unexplored archival material, mainly military and judicial archives. She is the author of the monograph “The Imposition of the State. The Civil War in Lamia, 1945-1949" published in 2016 by Taksideftis Publications and co-editor of the collective volume "Occupational Violence 1939-1945. The Greek and European Experience", Asini Publications 2016. *Support the Militaire.gr channel on YouTube by clicking on the JOIN button. It is important for us to be able to do more. Find out about the JOIN-JOIN program on YouTube.