Ioannis Ladas

In the summer of 1968, Ladas stormed into the office of the magazine Eikones and personally beat up its editor Panayiotis Lambrias.

[3] Ladas had been enraged at Eikones because it published an article saying that homosexuality was accepted as normal in ancient Greece.

[1] In the same speech, Ladas denounced young men with long hair as "the degenerate phenomenon of hippyism", calling hippies "anti-social elements, drug addicts, sex maniacs, thieves, etc.

[1] Ladas ended his speech by arguing that Greeks for racial reasons were still the world's preeminent people, but had only declined of inadequate leadership, a problem which had been solved by the "revolution" of 21 April 1967.

[1] Ladas claimed that Greece under military leadership would be "cured" of its problems and resume its rightful place in the world.