Ritsos, komunista, je 1936. u proslavljenom djelu "Epitaf" uzeo za metu desničarsku diktaturu i napisao stihove koji i danas odzvanjaju u ušima Grka:
In 1936, Ritsos, a Communist, in a celebrated work Epitaphios, took aim at a right-wing dictatorship and wrote lines that still resonate with the Greeks today: