Edited sentence: Despite lurid news accounts and even more lurid retelling only three or four people died.Even that event has attained mythological status.Evewn the Papandreou regime was unable to produce a list of dead largher than that.Other than the Panagoulis assassination attempt there were no other recorded acts of violence against the Colonels until the Polytechnic uprising.The Colonels collapsed only because they botched the Cyprus crisis of 1974.The internal resistance was a joke.The students WERE heroic but they had little outside support