Why we use the "Nazi" salute

Every 4th of August, all proud Greek nationalists use the so-called Nazi salute to express their love and loyalty to the Patrida, despite all the criticism they have to deal with by doing it. It needs to be well understood that the salute was not used just by the Nazis. It is the most simple form of greeting, and it's foolish to believe that nobody had used it before Adolf Hitler. The reason, us, Hellenic Ethnicists use it is because Metaxas did.

The Salute in Greece was used by the Metaxist fascist youth organization of Greece, EON.

It was also used among Greek klephts during the Hellenic Revolution.

In fact, we can trace it back to a Renaissance painting depicted Roman soldiers, that is why it is commonly known as the "Roman salute".

Although its usage in the Roman times is disputed, there is some evidence it was also used in Ancient Greece in certain periods & city-states, that is also somewhat disputed. Here's a statue of Pyrrhus of Epirus:

We are proud to use our ancestors, and we are proud to use this salute.

The myth of homosexuality in Ancient Greece

Modern-day LGBT activists, in an effort to enforce their ideas to the general public, create lies and exaggerations about the classical era of the Western Civilization. One of those myths is that the Ancient Greeks accepted & supported homosexuality. To be fair, there were certain periods of degeneracy in Ancient Greece, where non-intellectual Greeks accepted homosexuality (in the form pederasty, which is the modern Greek word for child molestation. Read more about it here), however, the truth is greatly exaggerated by those who have an agenda. They make it sound as if homosexuality was widely accepted by everyone, as if homosexuality was known throughout all of the periods of Ancient Greece and as if it was known in all of Greece, not just a couple city-states. A.k.a lies.

Plato - Credit

Here's what the intellectuals of Ancient Greece really thought about homosexuality & pederasty:

"It is very clear that when a man and a woman come together to reproduce the species, it gives them a pleasure that is completely in accord with nature, while the relationship between men (Arrenon) or between women (Thyleon) is against nature. It is a truly shameful act, especially if it includes rape (Aselgeia)." 
~Plato - The Laws (636) Read more here.

"To have relationships with males without their consent, this is rape and robbery; if, again, this happens with their consent, then this is the weakness (or softness, "malthakotita", related to modern day "malaka") and femininity ("thyliprepia", acting like a woman) on their part, which is against nature, as Plato says, 'to bear and to accept semen like animals.'."
~Plutarch - 751 δ-ε

"It is not for the female to behave like a man, against nature, nor for the male to lose all dignity and transform into a woman."
~Lucian of Samosata (a Syrian Hellenistic Philosopher) - "Erotes"

As you can clearly understand from the quotes, homosexuality was existent in ancient Greece (else the scholars wouldn't even talk about it) but it was not the norm, or widely accepted.

Credit: RedSkyWarning

Who are the Barbarians?

In Ancient & Modern Greece

In Hellenism, the distinction between Greek and non-Greek/foreigner/Xenos is very important. Since ancient times, the Greeks used two main categories for the people: "us" and "them". This is evidence of a common Greek national awareness among the politically divided ancient Greeks.
The word Barbarian ("Βάρβαροι") was used, and is still used, by the Greeks to refer to all the people who were not linguistically Hellenic (aka non-Greeks, since language was an important element of Hellenism), or had not been linguistically Hellenized. Barbarian as a word has a very negative connotation, nowadays, and it seems to have been like that since the classical era, although it wasn't originally meant to be used that way. This is because everyone who was not a Hellenophone was considered uncivilized and primitive, so the term eventually came to mean what it means today.

Longobard Barbarian warriors

It's important to note that it didn't always mean non-Greek, even in ancient Greece, and that many Greeks used it against other Greeks. For example, Prodicus of Ceos called "barbarian" the Aeolian dialect (a clearly Greek dialect), Athenian scholars called the Macedonians "barbaric", clearly for political reasons, since Athens' position as the city-leader of Hellenism was threatened by the rapidly growing Macedonian Kingdom, et cetera.

In the Roman empire

Once the Romans conquered the Hellenic world, the idea of such a distinction attracted them greatly, to a point where they decided to copy it and apply it to their own Latin civilization. Of course, since the idea was originally Greek, and since their civilization was influenced by the Greeks, they could not exclude the Greeks from the "us". So the term's meaning changed from "non-Greeks" to "non-Greeks and non-Latins".

Gaelic "barbarian" in front of Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar

Everyone who did not speak Greek or Latin was considered a Barbarian (which at the time also meant primitive and uncivilized). More specifically the term was used for Germanic tribes like the Goths, the Visigoths, the Longobards, as well as the Celts, the Gauls, the Berbers, and even the Thracians and the Illyrians, two Hellenic-like peoples who probably spoke languages that were similar to Greek.

In the Imperium Graecorum, medieval Greeks used the term barbarian was, again, for non-Hellenophones (even westerners), but mostly for Turks.

Today

Today the term is still used by modern Greeks to refer to non-Greeks, but usually in a joking manner, while few are the Greeks who use it with hatred towards the subject. The term may be used for all non-Greeks, no matter whether those are civilized, Europeans, whites, etc or not, although philhellenes and those who appreciated Hellenism are excluded.

Also, certain White Nationalist groups use it, but it is ironic (especially when used by Nordicists and Germans against Southern Europeans like Greeks and Italians), considering what the term actually means. I cannot help but cringe every time I see that happen.

~Michael C. Dim

The Megali Idea in theory

Ever since Greece became an autonomous state in the early 19th century, the idea of liberating the rest of the Hellenic homelands has been a major national objective. At the time the vast majority of ethnic Greeks lived outside the borders of our Kingdom. Greeks outside of Greece suffered in the hands of barbarians - mostly Turks & Bulgarians. The atrocities committed by those groups against us and our people have not been forgotten, and will never be.
Here, I will not talk about the Megali Idea as a historical political movement, because it is something that still divides the Greek nationalist community. Instead, I will explain 1) The Megali Idea in theory and 2) Analyze its current importance.

The Megali Idea in theory

The Megali Idea is a Greek nationalist concept that suggests the liberation of all the Hellenic lands that are still within foreign borders. A large part of the Megali Idea has already been achieved through the Balkan wars, but our defeat in the Greco-Turkish war of 1919 has left us, Greek patriots, with our hearts in pain for our lost fatherlands.

The lands included in the Megali Idea are compromised of Western Anatolia (Ionia, Bythinia, Mysia/Aeolis, Caria/Doris), Eastern Rumelia (or Eastern Thrace), the southern Black sea shores (Pontus), the island of Cyprus and Northern Epirus. Other versions also include Cappadocia and more extreme versions even parts of Ukraine, southern Italy, while some even suggest Alexandria. Macedonia, Thessaly, the Ionian & Aegean Islands, Southern Epirus, and south-western Thrace are also included but have already been annexed by Greece. 

In all but a name, the Megali Idea is the notion of a unified Greater Greece. That larger and stronger version of our country would have Constantinople as its capital and ideally only have citizens that are of Greek ancestry.

The Megali Idea today

After the huge and abrupt decline of Greek presence in Anatolia (because of the Greek genocide and the population exchange between Greece and Turkey), the Megali Idea has lost its relevance in the modern Greek nation, at least for the majority of Greeks. There are, however, still places outside Greece that have a majority Greek Christian population. Cyprus is currently the most crucial region of the Megali Idea, with the whole island outside the Greek state, and a chunk of it controlled by our eternal enemy. Northern Epirus is even less talked about despite all the injustices committed constantly by the Albanians against the native Greek population. Southern Italy also has an ethnic Greek population but the matter is completely neglected, which can probably be excused because of the fact that Greek national awareness is quite weak among Greeks there. The neglect of the topic of Northern Epirus, however, cannot be excused. There are still Greeks there, who speak the Greek language, practice the Greek Orthodox faith and are proud of their Hellenic heritage! The recent self-sacrifice of Hellenic ethnomartyr Constantine Katsifas brought the issue into the spotlight for a while but it seems like nothing has changed even a year later.

~Michael C. Dim.