Fotis Aggoules 1911 - 1964
"Behind the Barricades and the Barbed Wires"
Lecture by Vasilis Kolovos

Presented by famed Greek Artistic Director, President of the Pan-Hellenic Federation of Visual and Audio Entertainment, writer, actor, and scholar, Vasilis Kolovos discusses Fotis Aggoules, the people's poet.

A freedom fighter from Chios, Aggoules is one of the most representative cases of a creator who lived and wrote during the harsh period between the two world wars, who grew up and matured poetically and ideologically amidst poverty, exploitation, the barbarism of fascist occupation, behind the barbed wire and bars of jails.

He is the proletarian poet fisherman of Chios who sang of the struggling people, who marched to death within the horror of the civil war and post civil war period. He is the poet who behind the barbed wire and the barricades yelled at the oppressors:
"Don't expect us to give in, not even for a minute.
Not even as much as the cypress bends in the storm, We have loved life very much, far too much".