More on Greece

JayHecht at aol.com JayHecht at aol.com
Wed Mar 31 07:14:42 PST 1999


In a message dated 3/27/99 1:07:14 AM Central Standard Time, delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU writes:

<< You don't know anyone

>who thinks that the Greek people would have been better without Churchill

>stabbing the resistance in the back? Then you don't know all that many

>people...

>

>Nick Mamatas

So are you one of the people who thinks that Greece would have been a

happier place since WWII if its politics had been more like those of

Bulgaria?

>>

Nick, Brad

It is my understanding that the Greek civil war tore a giant hole in that country's society - maybe now it is recovered? It is pretty clear that the repression had a lof of support from the UK/US alliance. Didn't Churchill want D-Day to occur in Greece to prevent a southern flank for Stalin? The US misunderstood the PKA to be a front for Stalin; in actuality (I think) this had a lot to do with the infighting between the royalists and the communists.

I'm not sure what the alternative would have looked like had Greece had a "socialist" gov't for the entire post war period. The 73-74 certainly didn't make things better, though I remember that my mother didn't have to bargain over every item in the food store when we visited there afterward. Is that "progress" to live in a society that makes Guliani look like Marx?

Jason



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