by George Pastidis

Mikis Theodorakis, the music composer and political activist passed away. The man behind the soundtracks of “Zorba” and “Serpico”, the man who turned the poems of the Nobel Prize winners poets Giorgos Seferis and Odysseas Elytis into songs, the man awarded the Lenin Peace Prize, the man who resisted and fought hard during the World War II occupancy of Greece and was repeatedly tortured, the man who fought for his beliefs and did time on exile during the civil war of Greece, passed away readmore…