[lbo-talk] NY Times: The Island Where People Forget to Die (populated by commie exiles)

[Joseph Catron]

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> Ikaria’s unusual past may explain its communal inclinations. The strong
> winds that buffet the island — mentioned in the “Iliad” — and the lack of
> natural harbors kept it outside the main shipping lanes for most of its
> history. This forced Ikaria to be self-sufficient. Then in the late 1940s,
> after the Greek Civil War, the government exiled thousands of Communists
> and radicals to the island. Nearly 40 percent of adults, many of them
> disillusioned with the high unemployment rate and the dwindling trickle of
> resources from Athens, still vote for the local Communist Party.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/magazine/the-island-where-people-forget-to-die.html

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