Helen Vlachos [SEP] country of citizenship
for which she later wrote a book under the same title.
For her refusal to acquiesce to the Greek junta's demands that she censor her publications, her resistance against the regime of the colonels, and her contributions to freedom of the press, she was posthumously recognised as one of the World Press Freedom Heroes by the International Press Institute.
Life.
Helen Vlachos was the daughter, and only child, of Georgios Vlachos, who founded "Kathimerini", one of Greece's premier newspapers, in 1919.
public and contribute to the isolation and fall of the colonels. As a result, the dictatorial regime revoked her Greek citizenship and confiscated her property.
When her citizenship was taken away, she said: ""I was born a Greek and I will die a Greek. Those bastards were born fascists and they will die fascists"".
While in London she worked with Amalia Fleming and Helen Vlachos of Kathimerini against the junta of the colonels.
Political career Involvement in politics.
After the fall of the Junta