The first Greek soldier to fall in battle in the epic of the 1940s
October 28, 1940. From the break of dawn, following the historic rejection and the “no” decision by Ioannis Metaxas, Greece found itself at war with Italy. A war that went down in history as an Epic. A war, in which the country counted dead and the first of them was Vasilios Tsiavaliaris, who... It thus earned a place in history. "Before dawn appeared at 5 a.m. on October 28, 1940, the enemy's cannons began thundering and spreading fire and iron. The 21st outpost of the Greek-Albanian border, on the Golio ...
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