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November 1973 was met with bloody suppression. Ioannidis, the most hardline of hardliners, became enraged with the "liberalizing" tendencies of the Papadopoulos leadership and hatched a plot to overthrow him using his loyal ESA forces. On the night of 25 November 1973, Ioannidis overthrew
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Makarios to the presidency (and was the prelude to the island's current, divided state). Ioannidis could not survive such a humiliation, and was pushed out by the "coup of the generals" in August, headed by then
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Romanian Jews , long established in Ioannina .
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political dissidents. They also became notorious for insulting their nominal superiors, the
Generals of the Greek Army, who were generally royalist or republican and opposed to the junta leadership. His
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and complemented his military education by studying at the
Infantry School, the War School, and the School of Atomic-Chemical-Biological Warfare. As an army officer he took part also in the
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Papadopoulos in a successful and bloodless coup. Papadopoulos was arrested by the loyalists of Ioannidis in his opulent seaside villa at
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