What is Greek junta?
[[File:Greek Phoenix.svg|thumb|The [[symbol]] of the Greek Junta, showing the [[Phoenix (mythology)|Phoenix]]]] The '''Greek junta''' or '''[[wiktionary:regime#Noun|Regime]] of the Colonels'''{{Efn|{{lang-el|καθεστώς των Συνταγματαρχών|kathestós ton Syntagmatarchón}}, {{IPA-el|kaθesˈtos ton sindaɣmatarˈxon|IPA}}. Also known within Greece as just '''the Junta''' ({{lang-el|η Χούντα|i Choúnta|links=no}}, {{IPA-el|i ˈxunda|IPA}}), '''the Dictatorship''' ({{lang-el|η Δικτατορία|i Diktatoría|links=no}}, {{IPA-el|i ðiktatoˈri.a|IPA}}) or '''the Seven Years''' ({{lang-el|η Επταετία|i Eptaetía|links=no}}, {{IPA-el|i eptaeˈti.a|IPA}}).{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}}} was a [[Right-wing politics|right-wing]] military [[dictatorship]] that controlled [[Greece]] from 1967 to 1974. On 21 April 1967, a group of [[Colonel|colonels]] removed the [[wiktionary:caretaker_government#Noun|caretaker]] [[government]] a month before [[elections]] that [[Georgios Papandreou]] and his [[political party]], Centre Union, would probably win.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Democracy at Gunpoint {{!}} U-M LSA U-M College of LSA|url=https://lsa.umich.edu/lsa/news-events/all-news/search-news/democracy-at-gunpoint.html|access-date=2024-01-03|website=lsa.umich.edu|language=en}}</ref> The dictatorship was anti-[[Communism|communist]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TZr9DwAAQBAJ|title=The Oxford Handbook of Modern Greek Politics|last1=Featherstone|first1=Kevin|last2=Sotiropoulos|first2=Dimitri A.|date=2020-09-15|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-882510-4|page=217|language=en}}</ref> and it [[wiktionary:restrict#Verb|restricted]] [[civil liberties]]. It put many people to jail and tortured them.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xiOfI1SMFAgC|title=War, Torture and Terrorism: Rethinking the Rules of International Security|last1=Jr|first1=Anthony F. Lang|last2=Beattie|first2=Amanda Russell|date=2008-10-27|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-03868-8|page=28|language=en}}</ref> Many of the dictators' polit