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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 4 พ.ค. 2010
Violent August: The 1918 Anti-Greek Riots in Toronto - Documentary Film
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On a hot August night, not all that long ago and for the next four consecutive nights the good citizens of Toronto went crazy and ignited the largest riot in the citys history and one of the largest anti-Greek riots in the world.
Why did it happen? Why the Greeks? What were the consequences? Why, until now, has this incredible incident been forgotten? Incorporating detailed interviews with historians and family members of those affected, Violent August explores the causes of the riot and chronicles the events in detail. Using actual archival photos, newspaper reports and representational newsreel footage, the documentary brings the people, places and incidents vividly to life.
Violent August reveals the social conditions and motives of the enraged WW1 veterans who started the riots and the position of the small community of Greek immigrants and restaurant operators who unwittingly became the lightening rod for the violence. The film provides a powerful and shocking example of how a festering climate of racism and resentment became a ticking time bomb primed to explode at the slightest provocation.
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Produced, Written and Directed by: John Burry
Associate producer: Lynne Thorogood-Burry
Edited by Pete Raekelboom
FEATURING:
Prof. Thomas Gallant, Chair, Modern Greek History, University of California San Diego
Prof. Yiorgios Anagnostou, Associate Professor, Modern Greek and American Ethnic Studies, Ohio State University.
J.L. Granatstein
celebrated author and military historian.
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A BURGEONING COMMUNICATIONS FILM PRODUCED WITH FUNDING FROM THE OMNI INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS FUND.
As seen on Omni TV.
www.omnitv.ca/ontario/tv/docs/episodes/violentaugust/
To order the DVD please visit www.violentaugust.com.
On a hot August night, not all that long ago and for the next four consecutive nights the good citizens of Toronto went crazy and ignited the largest riot in the citys history and one of the largest anti-Greek riots in the world.
Why did it happen? Why the Greeks? What were the consequences? Why, until now, has this incredible incident been forgotten? Incorporating detailed interviews with historians and family members of those affected, Violent August explores the causes of the riot and chronicles the events in detail. Using actual archival photos, newspaper reports and representational newsreel footage, the documentary brings the people, places and incidents vividly to life.
Violent August reveals the social conditions and motives of the enraged WW1 veterans who started the riots and the position of the small community of Greek immigrants and restaurant operators who unwittingly became the lightening rod for the violence. The film provides a powerful and shocking example of how a festering climate of racism and resentment became a ticking time bomb primed to explode at the slightest provocation.
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Produced, Written and Directed by: John Burry
Associate producer: Lynne Thorogood-Burry
Edited by Pete Raekelboom
FEATURING:
Prof. Thomas Gallant, Chair, Modern Greek History, University of California San Diego
Prof. Yiorgios Anagnostou, Associate Professor, Modern Greek and American Ethnic Studies, Ohio State University.
J.L. Granatstein
celebrated author and military historian.
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A BURGEONING COMMUNICATIONS FILM PRODUCED WITH FUNDING FROM THE OMNI INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS FUND.
As seen on Omni TV.
www.omnitv.ca/ontario/tv/docs/episodes/violentaugust/
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Papa-dop-a-punchup
The Venizelos government officially declared war on the Central Empires in June of 1917, winning important victories. So all these excuses, due to Greece's neutral stance in WW1, are not valid. The Anglo-Saxon and French settlers of Canada were still uneducated and barbaric in 1918. Only the Greeks created and continue to create colonies, living peacefully with the local populations imparting values and ideals Divine Greece , long live Hellas.
Unexcusable dark chapter of Canadian history. Never compensating these greeks who left everything including a war torn country. Anglo Saxons
Anglo Canadian’s were extremely prejudice against most immigrants in the early 1900’s to 1970’s. Those of you who have parents or grandparents who immigrated to Canada during that time frame can tell you their first hand accounts of being victims of hate.
Where can i finc the whole video?
This had nothing to do with politics, it was racism. Search for "wog", Nordicism and Anglo-Saxonism. Greeks have always been considered part of the "others", labeling them into pseudo-ethnicities like "western" or "european" which is a modern/post-WW2 political agenda.
Before the Philhellenists of the 19th century, Greeks (present and ancient) were considered part of the "middle east", racially distant and without influence on the "Western" pseudo-ethnicity. After Phihellenism/Graecomania, only ancient Greece was included in the "Western" pseudo-ethnicity, but this was just a political move to combat Egyptomania. Modern Greeks continued to be considered a mixture of Mediterranean and Slavic and racially distant from the Philhellenist propaganda, which imagined the ancient Greeks as part of the Nordic race.
Down with the Greeks:)) haha. They refused to drink maple syrup and that's why they were beaten lol.
Wtf?
And now the grandchildren of said people who rioted against us Greeks now boast how "European" they are and how Greek history is their history. Quite the nerve.
EVERYTHING WILL FIND ITS CURE IN THE FORTHCOMING IMMINENT THERMONUCLEAR WORLD WAR
After 1917 Greece was in the war as the neeutralist king Constantine the 1st was reluctantly forced to abdicate. After the war the Greek army paraded in the Champs Elysees together with the armies of the other entente nations. Therefore how is an antigreek riot in Canada in 1918 justified ?
You didn't want them to join, then you got upset that they didn't join.
Man these people are fucked
I call it, the night the Canadians turned in to Turks.
@Good Morning I would not know about your lala land tails kid
@Good Morning you just a jealous Albanian, go get some real education kid
I'm glad Canadians kicked your ass. You show respect to your new gods the Canadians.
@@gregcosta6965 you wish poor miserable turk
The last time I was on Yonge Street, someone removed the historic plaque explaining this event, I hope it's just temporary, great video and channel
Yeah I remember my friends saying weird stuff about "slackng" etc and I never knew the meaning of the word
HOW GREECE REMAINED NEUTRAL WHEN MY FATHER'S UNCLE WAS FIGHTING TURKS UNDER VENIZELOS COMANDS FOR 4 YEARS YOU SONS OF BITCHES? KING CONSTANTINE WAS GERMAN BORN IN GREECE NOT KING MATERIAL JUST A TRATOR WHO DIDN'T SEND GREEK SOLDIERS TO HELP GREEK SOLDIERS ON THE FIELD! !
Because we fought the Turks in the second Greeco Turkish war
According to historical records, Greece resisted for a total of 219 days against Italy, Germany, Bulgaria and Albania between October of 1940 and April of 1941 when Nazi Germany launched a final, massive attack through Bulgaria. There was a request for a surrender and the Greeks said no. It was a mob of prejudice and angry people, they came home and saw things had changed and they wanted to blame someone.
You are confusing the WWI with WWII.
No other race suffered and still suffer like the Greeks.
Lol such a bold statement. So the Jews and blacks didn’t suffer much.
The Greeks were right. The canucks were wrong. At the end, the wrong side won the war.
The Greeks smell. Garlicky, oily, and undearmy. Get them out of Canada deport all of them:))
This is a great video, I hope that maybe it can get shown at Taste of the Danforth this year to celebrate the 100th anniversary!!! Teach people a bit about our history!
You're Greek?
Greece joined forces with the Entente in 1917. The Kingdom of Greece remained neutral until then because The king of Greece was the German Emperor's BROTHER IN LAW! We had a Danish King and a German Queen! Still this happened a year after Greece went to war because... reasons
After this incident there was nowhere to eat until the Hellenes/Greeks rebuilt their restaurants. I like the producers work here. Almost convincing that lynching is ok. At the same time the genocide of Hellenes/Greeks was happening in the former Hellenic/Greek states which have been taken and now called turkey so it doesn't surprise me to know that all around the western world this was happening.
MACEDONIA IS NOT GREEK ALEXANDER THE GREAT OF MAKEDON WAS NOT GREEK
***** ahahaha! hell! how many accounts do u have, i remember this one!
Demy friend the word macedonians comes from makednos who was son of arcadians in mythology and you are joruba from east africa and gypsies and kopts makednos means either tall yiu are mercenaries from romans and justinian who brought the plague in europe exsterminate big part of european population
FISOG the Former Islamic state of Greece. created by the British East India company in 1821.. Macedonia was a part of yugoslavia for less than a hundred years. The greeks were muslims for more than 400yrs therefore they hve been muslims longer than theve been christians.all the monastries were macedonian as the word "greek"had not been concieved yet it is an english word The ancient greek city states were inhabited by Indians. Those ancient greeks were killed off by the Visigoths in 393AD and left no descendants. The Macedonians were never killed off. modern greeks are in fact Albanian gap fillers from the 700sAD and pontusian refugees from 1920. these gapfillers did not participate in byzantine politics. the Macedonian dynasty did. and yes it was the greeks that converted to Islam to appease the turks. FISOG you are. The modern greeks are historic, cultural, economic and religious frauds. The modern greeks are not the same people as the ancients. they're fake greeks.
What Drugs are you on?
Demy Alexander the Great was Greek (Hellenic) from the region of Makedonia. Even his grand father participated on the Olympic games. As known only Greeks could participate in Olympic games... Only his name Alexander Αλεξ+Ανδρός And Macedonia Μάκος +δνος It's 100% Greek language. In Slavic those words means nothing.... Why you want to say that you are coming from Alexander ??? Be proud of your own (real) history You're Serbobulgarian (We recognize one nation firstly from his language)
The word Greece had no meaning or was never used till 1913. The island states were called Ahaja, Turkey, Toska, Morea, Corinth, Rumelia (Byzanitne), Magna Graecia (Greater Asia) and before that city states etc. Stop the BS, the question should be!! Are the Greeks:.... Egyptian, Albanian,(Arvanite) Turk, Vlach, Pomak, Gipsy,or mixture from all of the above,!!! For every normal person a mirror would be sufficient proof of it's self, of course unless it's made by the fake nation of ''Greece'', in that case the shits look like a snowball's.LOL
alex mkd Υοu uneducated brainwashed fyriomian clown, see it from your own scholarly literature 1)'We are not to be amazed that in the archaeological material of Pelagonia we have a rarely great wealth of reflections of all pronounced cultural events in the relations between middle-Danubian and Graeco-Aegean world' Mikulcic,Ivan "Pelagonija",Skopje,1966,pp.2 2))'Even in the last decades of 5th century stabilization in all spheres of social life is established. As first sign of the new time import from Graeco-Macedonian south appeared as well as fortified settlements that later grew into urban centers with character of economic and religious nuclei of the region' "Guide to the archaeological exhibition",Skopje,1996,pp.54 3)'For example,Pelagonia,which is naturally oriented to the South, was the first to be subjected to Greek influence, together with the lower part of Vardar' "Archaeologic Map of the Republic of Macedonia",Skopje,1996,pp.71 4)'Paeonians,a people who during the first millennia b.c inhabited border area between the three great paleobalkanic peoples-Illyrians, Thracians and Hellenes' Veljanovska,Fanica "An Attempt at Anthropological Definition of the Paeonians",Skopje,1994 5)"The Art of Antiquity left in the region of Ohrid a great number of traces of its own presence.Illyrian forts imported goods from Greek centers and imitated them in a modest fashion. Political advancement of the Macedonians and their domination enabled cultural influx that manifested itself through products of crafts and alphabet. From the times of Phillip II deeper advances in the area of Lychnidos are attested.Cultural influences of the Graeco-Macedonian world are more present.Rich Hellenistic culture arrived at Illyrian soil" "Ohrid" by Vera Bitrakova-Grozdanova ,in:"The Art in Macedonia" ,Skopje 1984, pp.85
alex mkd ahahhaha! he is the king of the downs from golden dawn!
alex mkd fyromian clown wake up, that was from your own scholarly literature. I understand you are an uneducated naive who nobody take you seriously but Instead to post your state oriented propaganda give a chance to educate yourself. In antiquity The citizens of the various polis' did recognise a cultural link between themselves as Greeks or Hellenes and non-Greeks or a better word to use would be foreigners. The cultural link was most obvious as the Greek city-states all spoke Greek. Also, they worshipped the same gods and overall the same manner though each polis had it's own festivals that were unique to it, they still shared the same religious practices and shared the same religious shrines such as the Apollo's shrine of Delphi and the Zeus' shrine of Dadona. The best example of the above were the Ancient Olympic games.All free male Greek citizens were entitled to participate in the ancient Olympic Games, regardless of their social status. Orsippos, a general from Megara; Polymnistor, a shepherd; Diagoras, a member of a royal family from Rhodes; Alexander I, son of Amyndas and King of Macedonia; and Democritus, a philosopher, were all participants in the Games. The Macedonians, Spartans, Athenians, Thebans, Syracusans, Ephesians, Pontians were people who shared parts of Hellenism as well parts of local culture. An Athenian against a Persian is a Hellene, but against a Corinthian remains an Athenian. www.olympic.org/ancient-olympic-games?tab=the-athlete
Demy DreamHunter vo pravo si:)
Demy DreamHunter Vo pravo si.poleka sami si se izdavaat koj od kade e doselen,i sto e.Neznam sto da kazam,tolku isprani mozoci i arogancija ne veruvam da ima na drugo mestoLOL Sega ke pocneme da im go cestitame nivniot ''Pravoslaven" Bozik,hahaha
@ Mr.Emir Şentürk, Good day to you sir. Before there ever was a group of people known as Seljuk Turk...... Armenians, Kurds, indigenous tribes along with the Greeks. Had lived there for years possibly even thousands of years before the westward migration through colonization, from warfare brought about by a Turkic land grab. That being said the unfortunate hatred that you have for Cypriots is unjust, as they had adopted Hellenism before there even was a tribe remotely close to a modern day Turkish identity. Turkey is the invader and not the Greeks, a nation that has been concurred will eventually one day resolve to gain their independence back. This is only a logical conclusion, I do not understand your frustration? As for your confusion on your genetic make up, why you have blonde hair and green eyes, seems to be of European decent. Since Turkic peoples are have a swarthy complexion and dark hair, it is a good deduction that a coupling either through marriage or rape in your ancestral lineage would indicate that you have Greek blood in you. My dear Sir, please educate yourself before you speak as it shows a lack of intellect and bad judgment. Remember you are a member of a society of many races.
the same goes for greek people. I know greeks with blue eyes and blond hair and know greeks who look like arabs. Anatolia was the home of sumer and hethit and not armenians or greeks
yes before turks there were greeks and armnian at anatolia but there were not kurds... kurds came from north persia to anatolia after persian sultan sheşkh ismail deported them because they were sunni muslim.. but sheikh ismail was shia muslim and wanted al persian make shia... by the waty turkmens at anatolia were shia muslims too.. so when ottoman sultan 1th selim beat sheikh ismail, shia turks at anatolia exodused to north persia and kurds at north persia exodused to anatolia... there were 20 million tukrmens living at persia now...
@@gunnyakdo1653 Greeks started making colonies in Anatolia during the 8th century, so no it's definitely our home as well. Also those groups of people were part of the Assyrian Empire and it wasn't the Greeks who genocided the Assyrian people.
The Greeks got their revenge on Toronto for these riots, when Steve Stavro kept the Maple Leafs the useless jokes of the NHL. Although it wasn't that hard. :P
@PAPASTHEGREAT η καλύτερη τιμωρία για σένα είναι το μίσος που τρέφεις.
αν βαλεις τιποτα υποτιτλους ... στα ελινεικα
ορθογραφία
go back to turkmenistan where you belong
Ai sto dialo pou to pezis kai metanasths esi karagiozi eleinei kommounisti exetias sas efyge o kosmos apo ellada giati mia zoh polemousate tous efoplistes kai bazate freno stin anaptiksi an den ixame esas tha eimastan h pio plousia xora tou kosmou anikani kathisterimenoi milate kiolas koproskyla skotonate kai biazete sto onoma tou stalin kai lenin kai milate kiolas ta idia sas ta aderfia apokefalizate kai biazete gynaikes mazepsate pano apo 100.000 pedia kai ta stilate stin roumania kai rossia
Didn't expect anything better from a turk. Learn History please.
Οι φασίστες της Χ.Α να βλέπουν αυτά τα βίντεο να μαθαίνουν και κάτι σαν εθνικοί χιμπατζήδες της πολιτικής και αυτοί.
TIN EIPES TI MALAKIA SOU KE ESI....HIROTEROS FASISMOS APO TOUS " ANTIFASISTES" ....DEN EIPRARHOUN!!
@@pasal99 Aυτο που ακους σιχαμενε γενιτσαρε!
Pretty interesting history.
ου ου !!! φασιστάκο, ο φασισμός είναι ιδεολογία ηλίθιε και όχι χαρακτηρισμός, αλλά, που να μάθεις γράμματα στο γκαγκανιστάν που μεγάλωσες
Wow i cant believe this is going on, I'm sorry man but just ignore that asshole He doesnt speak for all Turkish people. I love greece and greeks!
And you are?Love to hear what your background is...because Greeks have been called many things(fairly or unfairly),BUT noone anywhere has called Greeks slow,"idiots",or incapable of keeping up as far as "taboo" subjects are concerned...Long story short,you have a huge chip on your shoulder!!:)
You are an idiot
den trabas ta arxidia soy re kwlonazisti pou mou grafeis kai me kefalaia gia na mou to paikseis stratiwtikh anafora, blaxo e blaxo
αυτο να το δουν τ'αρχιδια οι τζαμπα μαγκες της ΧΑ...οι μπετοβλακες ναζι
και κάτι ακόμα ανόητε φασίστα αν γυρίσουμε όλοι οι μετανάστες πίσω είμαστε 8 εκατομμύρια το σκέφτηκες αυτό;; ξέρεις πως περνάνε τα ελληνόπουλα που αναγκάστηκαν να ξενιτευτούν στις μέρες μας ε;;; αει στο διάολο ζώα
σου εύχομαι να γίνεις μετανάστης και συ καραγκιόζη και να σε κυνηγάνε οι "άλλοι άριοι' τότε να σε δω βλάκα. μόνο που εκείνοι θα είναι ξανθοί άσπροι και γαλανομάτηδες
Τότε σάλτα και γαμισου ρε μαϊμού.άντε τράβα στην χώρα σου φασίστα. Του κέρατα.βαρετός κατάντησες γαβ γαβ όλο τα ίδία λες
ακου τετραποδο ζωο.μας τα εχετε κανει τσουρεκια με τον φασισμο σας.αντε στο διαολο αρεστερε φασιστα παρε ρε βλακα στο σπιτη σου τα ορκ αν θες και αντε και γαμισου.
γιατί οι σημερινοί μετανάστες στην Ελλάδα πως ήρθανε ρε καραγκιόζη σαν τετράποδα;;; Άντε με τον κάθε χαλβαδάκο εδώ μέσα... άριοι μαύροι όλοι σας!!! Και οι πιο μαυριδεροί ρε π..τη μου είναι οι ναζιστές εκεί είναι το απίθανο σ' αυτή τη χώρα!!!
" η έλληνες "
Χαχαχα
malakas μαλακας εισαι ναι βρε μαλακα πηγαν σαν ανθρωποι.αλλα σαν μαλακας που εισαι λογικο ειναι να μην το ξερεις μαλακα η stin glosa soy malaka.
Για το πως πήγαιναν οι 'Ελληνες στην Αμερική μάθε για το Long Island. Θα σου λύσει πολλές απορίες για τη διαδικασία και ίσως καταλάβεις ποιος πέφτει θύμα εξαπάτησης της προπαγάνδας του κάθε ημιμαθή με την έλλειψη του μέτρου.
kai pws nomizeis tha katalavoun ti leei??? edw den xerun ellhnikaa.. aglika tha xerun??? xaxaxaxaxaxaaxxaaxaxxa
καμια σχεση μαστορα η ιστορια που ειδες με τους ελληνες με τους λαθρομεταναστες που εχουμε εδω.εκτος και αν πηγαν η ελληνες διχως εγγραφα στον καναδα.λιγα αγγλικα θελει για να καταλαβεις το νοημα.σκεψου τωρα κατι ακομα εσυ λες τους αλλους ελληνοναζι εσυ τη ακριβως εισαι?πρασινοναζι?κοκκινοναζι?ροζναζι?μπλεναζι?ασε τα ταμπελακια.
OI METANASTES EINAI THS GHS OI KOLASMENOI ELLINES KAI KSENOI ERGATES ENOMENOI..FUCK NATIONALISM FUCK RACISM!!!
ΝΟΜΟΣ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΤΟ ΔΙΚΙΟ ΤΟΥ ΕΡΓΑΤΗ HELLAS