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:
Ricos, inače komunista, se 1936. godine u proslavljenom radu Epitafios usprotivio desničarskoj diktaturi i napisao stihove koji i danas odzvanjaju kod Grka: