Maximos Charakopoulos: Tribute to the 50 massacred Souloutzovalis with the ethnic martyr Chrysostomos of Smyrnatranslated

The Secretary General of the Parliamentary Group of the New Democracy, MP of Larissa, Dr. Maximos Harakopoulos, mentioned the tragic death they met in 1922 together with Metropolitan Chrysostomos in the massacre of Smyrna, the 50 massacred Souloutzovalis -compatriots of the refugees who settled in Vunaina-, after the memorial prayer in front of the monument of Chrysostom of Smyrna, in the homonymous square of Vunaina, performed by the vicar of the village, Father Miltiadis. The parliamentarian and historical researcher noted that "the Asia Minor Catastrophe has rightly been characterized as the greatest national calamity in the history of Hellenism, even greater than the fall of Constantinople in 1453. And this is because after the fall of the City, Hellenism continued to exist in the lands of the former Byzantine Empire and in the eastern lung of Hellenism, Asia Minor.

The Smyrna Massacre of 1922 is the last act of genocide concocted and carried out by foreign-sponsored German forces, led by Lyman von Saunders, the Ottoman Empire and the Kemalist nationalist movement, with the aim of exterminating all Eastern Christians. Since 1914…