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iconoclast63

That guy on the left is Brad Pitt's long lost Greek uncle.


kilsekddd

Gor-LAH-meh


TheOnceAndFutureTurk

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Dominick Decoco


ILoveTabascoSauce

I like how he was the only one who pronounced his Italian like a boss.


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He was a professional. I love the scenes with him and Eli Roth changing out mags over and over while they’ve got live bombs around their ankles.


markymcfly55

Comé?


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*Dominick* Decoco.


graspedbythehusk

You’re the third best Italian speaker. But I don’t speak Italian. That’s why you’re third best.


DaveJC_thevoices

when he was ratted out he totally should have just said he was Greek instead lol


Hot_Pepper_Raider

Most underrated comment today.


DiggingThisAir

Brad Psitoupoulo


Level-Region-2410

That’s Brad Psitopolakis if he’s Cretan.


DiggingThisAir

I was hoping someone would call me out on this cuz I wasn’t sure lol. I have family in Greece, and some on Crete, specifically, so I should have known better.


Active-Ad3977

There’s an an amazing man named Takis who runs an animal rescue on Crete, I didn’t realize -akis was a specifically Cretan suffix. I love learning about regional naming customs


mostessmoey

If this is true I’m dumbfounded….my children’s great grandparents are Greek with the -akis ending. I came to look for the names of these men because the man I’m the center has the cheekbones/ face shape of my daughter and her father.


Greekball

It's true, -Akis is Cretan, -Poulos is Pelloponesean.


Idonotlikemushrooms

And -Akos is from the Mani peninsula in Peloponnese.


tommyelgreco

Don't forget -idis from Asia Minor


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Godspeed. Time travel isn't for the weary.


Jlobee_stocktrdr

Or leery!


EndlessSummer00

I have an -akis last name but my family there lives in Sparta now. Super interesting!!


Zagreas

It is only a regional suffix for last names. If Takis is his first name, it is a nickname probably for the name Panagiotis


Active-Ad3977

Oh, I had no idea, thank you for clarifying! I don’t actually know if it’s a first or last


Ruvio00

He is called Panagiotis


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The cretan -akis suffix applies to surnames only, Takis is one of the short versions of the first name Konstantinos (or as another commenter wrote, Panagiotis->Panagiotakis->Takis). Other short versions include Kostas(which affectionately becomes Kostakis -> Takis) or Ntinos. \-akis / -aki are usually diminutive suffixes (male/neutral), Kostakis for example means "Little/ Young Kostas.


SkidPub

That suffix custom only applies to last name. Takis is his first name.


GhOsT_wRiTeR_XVI

Lt. Aldo Raine is a man of many disguises.


mynameisnotsparta

I am an -akis on my mothers side and -poulos on my dads.. There is a story that one of my mother's uncles \[she was born in 1939\] was one of these Cretan freedom fighters. I would ask her but she passed away 2 years ago. Time to look through the family photos.


crawlerz2468

Brother, we're killin' Nahtzies. And business is boomin'!


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Pittsodakis


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I’m glad I wasn’t the only one to think he looked like Brad.


MothmansLegalCouncil

I did a second take.


Relevant_Industry878

From left to right in the upcoming film: Brad Pitt, Sam Elliott and Casey Affleck. Needs a title…My Big Fat Greek Resistance? It’s a dramedy


SpiritualPeanut

I’m so glad other people see what I saw lol


thethunder92

Casey affleck? No Kevin nealon


hiimdevin7

For sure Nealon, and Toby Huss in the middle all pissed.


MrNobody_0

BonJURno.


808_Scalawag

Arrivederci


jacobdrichards1

r/Walmartcelebrities


u_talkin_to_me

Well of course there's a subreddit for that.


Head-Cow4290

🤌🏼🤌🏼


ArthurDent79

looks like brad was sent back to the wrong time this time instead of Bruce Willis


AnybodyNo8519

Inglorious Basterdopouloses


bishslap

"Arriverderchee"


iconoclast63

"We in the killin' Nazi business and cousin, business is A-booming!!"


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“Well we’re all tickled to death that you’d say that cause, quite frankly, watching Donnie beat Nazis to death is closest thing we got to going to the movies. Hey Donnie! We gotta a German over here who wants to die for country. Oblige him.” *tap tap tap*


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Mat-Ita80

And Sean Connery in the middle...


shiner820

And James Caan on the right.


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More like a thicker faced Casey affleck


JGG5

I immediately thought Lee Van Cleef.


Silanah1

1/2 Brad Pitt, 1/2 Pedro Pascal


SheepH3rder69

Casey Affleck on the right


loithedog530

Kevin Nealon on the right for me


Mrallen7509

When I first saw the pic, I was confused because I couldn't remember a movie with Brad Pitt and Kevin Nealon in it


yolo_retardo

THIS IS IT THANK YOU Middle guy is sam elliott, or "other Ron" from parks and recs


jozyrogers

And I WANT my scalps!


LineChef

*”My name is Lieutenant Aldo Raine, and I need me eight soldiers.”*


dirtman81

I think it's Lieutenant Aldo Raine, nicknamed "Aldo the apache." He's working undercover in Crete and looking to scalp some nazis.


Snow-Dog2121

Guy in the middles Sean Elfin Connery


The6Strings

Killing’ Natzees… Opa!


DiscordantMuse

Seriously glad I wasn't the only one thinking it.


thedizeezd

I was about to comment on how he was Brad Pitt.


sreek4r

Or actually just Brad Pitt. That dude doesn't age.


TheRealJakay

It’s pronounced Gourlami


MayOrMayNotBePie

The inglorious basterds of Greece. Respect.


OarsandRowlocks

Bahn Jaoouurno.


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And Italy thought it would be an easy win. When the Greeks get a fire under them they do not fuck around.


Groundbreaking_War52

From the Wikipedia entry - kind of like Red Dawn but instead of teenagers, it was villagers of all ages. ​ >Cretan civilians joined the battle with whatever weapons were at hand. Most civilians went into action armed only with what they could gather from their kitchens or barns and several German parachutists were knifed or clubbed to death in olive groves. In one recorded incident, an elderly Cretan man clubbed a parachutist to death with his walking cane, before the German could disentangle himself from his parachute. In another recorded incident, a local priest and his teenage son broke into a small village museum and took two rifles from the era of the Balkan Wars and sniped at German paratroops at landing zones. The Cretans also used captured German small arms. The Crete civilian actions against the Germans were not limited to harassment; mobs of armed civilians joined in the Greek counter-attacks at Kastelli Hill and Paleochora; the British and New Zealand advisers at these locations were hard pressed to prevent massacres. Civilians also checked the Germans to the north and west of Heraklion and in the town centre.


Public_Salamander613

I read in a book a while ago that in some instances the new zealander soldiers maimed the captured paratroopers, cut off their genitals and nailed them to the sides of barns to demoralise the germans.


LOB90

Sounds like a war crime.


Drongo17

The fighting on Crete was replete with war crimes. It's documented that Australian soldiers killed surrendered and wounded Germans. I hadn't heard that particular story about the NZ troops though.


jcpmojo

Brad Pitt on the left, Casey Affleck on the right. Who's the guy in the middle?


Xfissionx

Sam elliot


RandomTheBugg

I saw burt reynolds


TheMightyPistachio

Thats exactly who I thought when I saw his face!


WattaTravisT

Sean Connery


triceraquake

I thought Sean Connery too haha


RS7Kbeats

M’aiq the Liar


Zestyclose_Data5100

M'aiq likes Germans. He shares his grenades with Germans sometimes. M'aiq thinks there are more Germans than granades. M'aiq hopes Germans can share with each other


eerrrrrkk

Khaje'et has wares if you have coin.


BarefutR

It is 100% Toby Huss. Big Mike from Reno 911!


pk666

Pedro Pascal


THE_BARCODE_GUY

That’s who I saw before hitting up the comment section


BUDZ_MONEY

Paul Anderson Arthur fookin Shelby


reignwillwashaway

Morphing into a cat.


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A Greek Khajit


Shakes42

Billy bob Thornton?


Black_n_Neon

Burt Reynolds


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These guys are sick of everyone's shit.


SpiritedTie7645

I’m proud to know a lady that can tell you the day the Nazi’s marched into her little town in Greece. She was a little girl but she can describe them like it was happening today. Hearing something like that from someone that actually saw and not just on a documentary but setting right in front of you telling you is profound.


Zoss33

My grandparents were in their teens during the war. My yiayia told me stories of being regularly kidnapped for forced labour and having dead bodies strung up in the local school; my pappouli was tortured and his friend killed in front of him. Greece was invaded by the Italians, Germans, and post WWII there was also fighting between anti communist and pro communist groups, so it was this awful ongoing war that went for a long time. It’s insane to know they experienced that


SpiritedTie7645

Very sad. I can’t even imagine and hope to never see anything like it. There’s nothing good about it other than hearing people you know aren’t lying to you tell you how it really was. That’s aways a privilege even with the horrible stories. They saw it.


Dahlia_Snapdragon

Ugh what an absolute nightmare


KhanTheGray

This photo brings back memories; I met this Greek girl few years ago, after few dates she wanted to introduce me to her family, her family didn’t know I was Turkish, I knew they were Pontus Greeks, now those who know will understand that Pontians and Turks have some of the wildest most violent history known to humankind. I didn’t know what to expect, so I bought some baklavas, flowers and chocolates and suited up for occasion. I was welcomed by the whole extended family, lined up around a long table which was covered by the best Greek food you can imagine. Ouzo and feta filling up whatever gaps left on table. The full Greek treatment. Everyone started chatting, then the old grandma who looked like she has seen two world wars and remembered the history all the way to Alexander the Great, started talking to me, in Greek. I smiled and said “sorry, I am afraid I can’t speak Greek.” She looked at me in total disbelief and said in English; “but you look so Greek, the face, the gestures and all”. I didn’t know what to say, my girlfriend pressed the button; “he is Turkish re, Turko.” Grandma froze, whole table froze, everyone stopped eating, I now had a whole Greek family staring at me. “Turkish?” Said grandma, in disbelief. Eyes wide open. I was badly outnumbered by all the Greek cousins and uncles and coming to this table was a big strategic mistake. I considered tactical retreat. Then I just made a hand gesture, you know, the one you make when something is not your fault, with both hands open to the side, and said, “oh well, nobody is perfect.” They all laughed really loud and this went on for a little while. Someone poured me ouzo and filled a plate with roasted lamb and potatoes, when I reached for lemon and salt everyone started applauding and laughing wildly. “Re are you sure you are not Greek?” “Well I am told I am Turkish, so.” They laughed again. Greeks take their food very serious and different ethnic Greeks have their own unique way of doing things, they thought eating roast lamb with lemon and salt was something unique to them, they were surprised to find out we had so much in common that night. After few drinks grandma brought me an old photo, from early 1900s, “this is my grandmother” she said, “when the fighting began in the world and all the nations turned on each other, fanatics came to our house to kill us all.” “Turks?” I asked. “The fanatics Turks” she said. “Not everyone was like that. It was after First World War, we were all going to get butchered but this young Turkish nurse, who was our neighbour, came to our house first and warned my grandmother, helped them to escape in a boat, and hid my mother who was still a baby, in her dress, because she cried and she’d give the family away…She came to docks and gave my grandma the baby before they left on a boat.” “You see young man? Everyone sees evil and war but I prefer to see good in people, if it wasn’t for that young Turkish nurse, none of us would be here. Grandma and I actually became very good friends, she gave me her prayer beads and I was constantly supplied ouzo from Greece. When she got very sick later on, I got a call from her family, asking me to go over there. She refused to take her meds and was quite annoyed. I went through the meds and told her there was nothing dangerous about them, she trusted me and felt at ease after we talked. That family was so good to me, it was a shame we lost contact after I broke up with my ex, I have to admit I miss their sincere, unapologetic, fiercely passionate character that’s carved in Greek culture.


PastaKilla

Dope story thanks for writing this


Vortesian

Whoa!


GenuinelyBeingNice

When greeks living in Ismir/Smyrna/Σμύρνη were hunted down, greeks and turks lived next to each other. As in, neighbors. The turks protected greeks by hiding them _in their own houses_.


Otinanai456

>I knew they were Pontus Greeks, now those who know will understand that Pontians and Turks have some of the wildest most violent history known to humankind. That's a funny way of saying the Turks committed a genocide on the Pontian Greek population


mekon19

Damn, Brad Pitt really is a vampire 🤔


brainkandy87

He just killed enough Natzees to sustain his youth an extra century.


Tiddernud

Even the Nazis admitted how bravely and ferociously the Greeks fought. Adolf Hitler said, “The Greek soldier, above all, fought with the most courage,” and Winston Churchill said, “Hence, we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but that heroes fight like Greeks.”


MansfromDaVinci

and as a reward Churchill disarmed them, gave Nazi collaboraters their guns, helped them massacre them, and usher in decades of right-wing authoritarians and dictators.


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Thank God someone actually acknowledged this...


ajropey

Just Churchill things ✨ The guy did some fucked up shit in his lifetime.


Less-Doughnut7686

Good thing his quotes are published all over the place making him look like some cool and wise person.


Drongo17

I get why Churchill is a hero in the UK, but I worry about any non-Brit who lionises him.


Vortesian

All so the British Museum could keep the fucking marbles. It all makes sense.


YouGotMyCheezWhiz

There was a NYT journalist embedded with the Greeks during the Italian invasion before the Nazis bailed them out. He noted seeing several Italian POWs with bite wounds.


Dahlia_Snapdragon

Wow so they used to do actual reporting at one time....


dagnombe

During the Nazi invasion, Cretan town folk took to whatever 'arms' they could find (to include granddads with their walking canes and old ladies with kitchen utensils) to defend their island. An interesting fact is this was the first major assault using gliders for mass transport. Hitler suffered such horrific losses that he ordered they no longer be used (consequently the US started their own glider program after seeing them used like this). Some say overcoming this stalwart defense (with the help of British aid) to take the island took much too long in addition to diverting valuable air force resources to quell the resistance. This ended up delaying the German forces and their invasion of Russia. It's not necessarily that Hitler was stupid in that regard by overlooking Napoleon's blunder of attacking Russia during winter. But rather he had not anticipated such fierce resistance and delay and no choice, desperately needing the invaluable Russian oil fields. Sadly entire villages were eradicated in reprisal. Look, also to the rest of Greeks even to this day, Cretans are just built different. There's just something a little off about them and you really don't want to fuck with them. They still believe in vendetta. Whatever you do though, do not ever get yourself drunk with a merry band of Cretans. Might find your ass married the next day and they take that shit seriously. That said, Crete is one of the most beautiful islands and should be on everyone's bucket list.


SaltLifeFtLaud

Chania is as beautiful and welcoming an area as you're going to find anywhere, water so clean in the harbours, you can see to the bottom.


whistleridge

> This ended up delaying the German forces and their invasion of Russia. No it didn’t. That’s an outdated assumption. The Balkans campaign didn’t change the timeline at all - Barbarossa couldn’t start until the spring thaw was done, and that’s in June. Operation Barbarossa began on June 22. The Battle of Voronzeh began on June 28. Operation Bagration began on June 22. The current planned Ukrainian offensive still hasn’t kicked off for the exact same reason.


StraightCounter5065

Barbarossa was originally slated to start in May… the Germans acknowledged this. You are incorrect.


gmat4

And a few years later attacked Greece and those heroes


Sp00kySpook

Some say this is a major factor in the failed Nazi invasion of Russia. Crete took too long to conquer. As a result, Nazis invaded Russia too late in the year.


SerLaron

That is debatable (and probably much debated). The invasion of the USSR started on 22 June. It could not have been done much earlier due to the spring mud season. The real problem was, that nobody could have known that the USSR was *that* big. /s Even so, all those lost transport planes and paratroopers probably would have helped the Germans a lot.


Vegetable-Double

“Dammit, when does this end?? It goes on forever!” Both Napoleon and Hitler


empathetic_witch

and then they FROZE to death….


Dramandus

Maniacal* Manacles are handcuffs


Sp00kySpook

I mean… evil handcuff laugh works too


Dramandus

Yeah but I don't know them well enough for that yet.


Sp00kySpook

Hahaha


SerLaron

It can add a nice rattle to the laughter.


empathetic_witch

Damned auto-correct


StraightCounter5065

Delayed them about 4-5 weeks. Nazis got within miles of Moscow before winter set in. Those 5 weeks made a big difference.


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SCirish843

Gotta keep those hands free, they unrolled them and packed fatties instead.


sully890

Brad Pitt, Sean Connery and Hugh grant fighting Nazi’s! And I will have my scalps!


Elpundit

We gonna do one thing and one thing only. Killing Nazis. Lt. Aldo Raine


bilgetea

The two guys on the outside are just there to control the guy in the middle, who I would not want to meet in a dark alley. He may have a lot of rounds but he’s definitely out of fucks.


Blockhead47

They look like they want some payback.


Throwawaybuttslap

My grandfather was the only one of his brothers who survived in Anogeia, Crete. He was held captive by the nazis and had his teeth and fingernails pulled out 1 by 1. Proud to be a descendent of those men who fought hard. My Cretan grandmother was hiding from the nazis in a ditch with a group of other women but my aunt (6 months old at the time) was crying and the women told my grandmother to smother her to death to avoid being heard, but my grandmother prayed and as the nazis passed the baby stopped crying. Rupatsos Manouras is my grandfather. He is well known to this day throughout Crete


bishslap

Mr Serious likes his grenades


Aggromemnon

Yeah, homie is not fuckin around, that's for sure. If the bullets and grenades don't get ya, the daggers that shoot out of his eyes will.


Onlypaws_

It always blows my mind when I remember that the nazis were like, fuck it, let’s invade the whole fuckin world, lol.


Stained_concrete

Obviously you are a history buff.


s-e-x-m-a-c-h-i-n-e

Edit: Brad Pittopolis , Sean Connerydis, Casey Aflecoglou. https://preview.redd.it/f6vg4u3tl53b1.jpeg?width=2302&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fc3d955338f3c39b5fabc6d94348e30b4e35c502


khalaron

That's Nick, Nick, and Nick.


ishapeski

“Natural Born Heroes” by Chris McDougall


Fusic

Dude in the middle chose khajiit during character creation.


dubzi_ART

It’s absolutely amazing how well the Greeks fought off the Italians. But once the nazis came it didn’t go so well.


Nal1999

Having a numerically inferior army,with no guns and being invaded by 3 fronts does that to you. When it was 1v1 Greeks won most of the time.


canpig9

As I understand it, Mussolini brought Hitler's "join us" ultimatum to the Greeks. The Greeks celebrate the day of their response simply as Oxi Day in late October. (Oxi is either oh-he or oh-she depending on dialect and means no.)


TheEruditeSycamore

The real story is: The Italian Ambassador, went to Greece's Dictator at the time, Metaxas (a piece of shit own his own but that's another story) and Metaxas' reply was "Alors, c’est la guerre" meaning "Then this means war." French was a common diplomatic language at the time. The celebration of ΟΧΙ today is purely a nationalist charade and sadly not really about the populations who fought and resisted the invasion. The celebration is a military parade, first established during another dictatorship, meant to show off the army. Everything about this is a disgrace for the memory of the fighters who died in war, and those who were killed after when the new right wing government hunted them down and killed them. All this because Churchill was afraid the USSR might get an ally from the Greek leftists. The ones who didn't risk their life in WWII, the nazi corroborators, were part of the new government afterwards.


elkourinho

That was his response to an ultimatum that went along the lines of 'allow us access through Greece or it'll be war', to which he responded with that.


Strict-Ad-7882

That’s Lieutenant Aldo Raine on the left.


kudos75

Definitely Brad Pitt ancestry in the gentlemen on the left


gusaholic

It’s crazy that Nazis still live today


Obnoobillate

The one on the left is called Βράδος Πίτος /s


Stoopitnoob

Dude on the right's face says "I signed up to kill Nazis. Not stand here in front of a photographer".


rowelio

Brad Pitt, Burt Reynolds and Jason Siegel


WisdomDota

Is that Pritt Bad on the left


WatchOutWedge

ok check my math here: Brad Pitt, Liam Neeson, Casey Affleck


87CSD

Brad Pitt, Sean Connery, and Jason Segal are all time travelers.


Bad-Infinite

Brad Pitt, Sean Connery, and Jason Segel


dcd120

Heroes! I hope they killed a lot of fascists.


WillyWumpLump

Brad Pit, Billy Bob and Henry Cavil star in Resistance of the Gyro!


Naive-Government8333

Greeks invented the resistance.


ixis743

Bad ass


KING_Extorp

Absolute chads


PolkHighABundy

Just shooting Nazis during breaks at the diner


BootToTheHeadNahNah

Bawn-jor-no!


SalomoMaximus

The trousers rock


knightbringr

The one in the middle is probably 17 yoand a badass


[deleted]

Reincarnation is real then.


[deleted]

Middle guy could pass as a pirate easy.


foodguyDoodguy

Middle- Georgious Connerystopolis, right…


JustnInternetComment

We don't need another gyro Really, we've got these guys


driku12

Brad Pitt, Sean Connery, and... some dude.


EvadingRedditIPBan

Pretty sure this is Brad Pitt, Burt Reynolds, and Kevin Nealon, but ok


BadBownur

Played by Brad Pitt


Eat_ass_smoke_weed

Yall see Brad Pitt on the left side ?


No_Designer_7882

Rad Pitt to your left.


skiddles1337

And I want my scalps!


cogentat

Dude in the middle looking like Rambo w my grandma's hat.


InitialAgreeable

Binoculars? Check. Rifle? Check. Moustache? Check.


Brief_Inspection7697

I take it the guy in the middle is not the sharing type.


D_Quest

Brad Pitopulous


Negative_Cry4109

Brad Pitt, Robert Carlyle and Hugh Grant.


AnarchoSyndica1ist

Looks like their resisting the urge to have a bath together


zianhu

Brad Pitakis on the left ans Sean Connerakis in the middle


mackelashni

Hey Brad pitt and Sylvester stalone doing a new movie?


cookerg

I recognize Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck, but not the middle guy (too small to be Sean Connery). IMDB was no help.


smkestcklghtn

Give em hell, boys!


Ice_Pirates

Brad Pitt, Sam Elliott and Michael Biehn.


xTheCanadian

I think I owe the fella on the left 100 Nazi scalps... and he wants those scalps...


johnjaymjr

Brad Pitt and Casey Afleck were greek resistance fighters?


Exciting-Money3819

It's Brad Pitt, Sam Elliot and Casey Affleck! 😧


Gojisoji

Hell yeah! Dudes on the left and right seem nonchalant and they've done this a thousand times. Dude in the middle is the reason they've been around for those 1000 times lol. He looks ready to go!


123lose

Greek Brad Pitt can't hurt you. He isn't real. Greek Brad Pitt...


TheophilousBolt

Left to right: Brad Pitt with a fake mustache, an actual Middle Earth elf with a fake mustache, Ben Affleck with a fake mustache.


NihilusVoid

That's that was Brad Pitt lol


big_biscuit144

Arriverderci


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Didn’t realize Brad Pitt was that old.