İn Greece , In 1926, Decree FEK 331 forcibly replaced Albanian, Macedonian, and Slavic place-names with Greek, followed by Law 87 in 1936, which banned all non-Greek personal names. This systemic erasure extended to erasing inscriptions on church icons and tombstones, ensuring not even the dead retained their true identities. Viewing this systematic cultural erasure with anything other than absolute cynicism requires naive optimism