The iconic British statesman Winston Churchill, who led the United Kingdom during World War II, famously praised the Greek people in a BBC speech during the first days of the Greco-Italian War, stating “Until now we used to say that the Greeks fight like heroes. Now we shall say: Heroes fight like Greeks.”
In Greece October 28 they commemorate October 28 as OHI (NO) day when the axis powers demanded their surrender.To which they replied with only one word ,OHI.
They say that a picture tells a thousand words. The graphic below does a bit of that.
They repelled the Italians and chased them into the mountains of Albania, fording the Germans to withdraw resources from other fronts to come to the rescue. Some say precipitating the fall of Mussolini, and changing the dynamics of the war.
To the defence of the Italians, their heart was really not into it,and were totally unprepared by the ferocity they encountered.
Greeks have never held bad feelings toward Italians for the unfortunate for both sides incident.
And to their credit, Italians did string Mussolini from a high tree afterwords.