The Commemorative Medal for the Victory Over Greece is an Italian medal from the WW2 period.
Italy invaded Greece on 28 October 1940 from the Italian-occupied Albania. By Apr. 1941 the Hellenic Army had repelled the attack and had pushed the Italians deep inside the Albanian territory. Trying to prevent the imminent Italian defeat, Germany attacked Greece and Yugoslavia, from/with Bulgaria, on 6 Apr. 1941 and forced the continental Greek Forces to capitulate 3 weeks later.
The medal shows on the obverse a dramatic scene of Italian soldier driving bayonette into a lioness. The medal measures 32.5mm in diameter. On the obverse there is the famous phrase of Mussolini “Spezzeremo le reni alla Grecia” (we will split the kidneys of Greece) during his speech on the radio on Nov. 19 1940.
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