The isolation of the regime

According to the conventional interpretation of the events that transpired in 1973-1974, it was not the Polytechnic Uprising that actually precipitated the military dictatorship's downfall but the Turkish invasion of Cyprus eight months later, which was prompted by the overthrow of the Cypriot government of Archbishop Makarios III by Dimitrios Ioannidis' regime in Athens.

No matter how strong the belief that the junta was not overthrown by a popular uprising or by the forces of the resistance against the regime expresses the traditional skepticism of conservative circles toward the masses, it is, in principle, correct. Divided, the resistance movement suffered a heavy blow after the Polytechnic Uprising. 

The fall of the dictatorship, instead, was caused by divisions within its ranks, which peaked with Turkey's Operation Attila against Cyprus. This was more than...