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<\/p>\n(I want to dedicate this text to those of my former students who in the end, chose “mediocrity” and “virtual reality” for the sake of their own society, their own families and their own survival).<\/p>\n
The\u00a0\u00a0 70s, with an effective presidential parliamentary system and with all elected political parties participating freely and independently in all legislative procedures in the\u00a0 Greek Parliament, produced a certain normality in Greek Society which soon yielded fruits. There was economic development, greater means and protection for a freer\u00a0 political and cultural expression by all\u00a0 Greek\u00a0 Citizens, a more institutionalized\u00a0 organization of the workers in all professions, and lastly but most critically, once again there was a\u00a0 social rise of all the democratic and leftist political forces in the country. This last socio-political development had taken place due to a more universal educational system at all levels and also due to\u00a0 a more coherent and pragmatic political consciousness developing through more independent political parties, a freer press and\u00a0 the large increase in the numbers of editing houses\u00a0 which provided the Greek population with a wider range of\u00a0 books of all types of\u00a0 learning and ideologies. These democratic and leftist socio-political forces of\u00a0 Greek Society, “once again”, but with more intensity and pragmatism, demanded “now and then”, a more modern and pluralistic state which would promote and protect the interests and the everyday\u00a0 needs of all the people, based on the criteria of a modern nation-state, similar to those being applied effectively and creatively in the developed states of the West.<\/p>\n
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This historical\u00a0 development of all of\u00a0 Greek\u00a0 Society, especially after\u00a0 the government\u2019s political rapprochement to the European\u00a0 Community, resulting in\u00a0 Greece becoming a full member-state in 1981, introduced serious handicaps to the expansionist strategies of the international financial centres concerning that country, which were always a fragile state or state infrastructure, a fragile society politically and economically, and the isolation of the country geopolitically but also culturally. Within this natural historical process, there had to be\u00a0 a political formula and a political personality which could\u00a0 respond to the expansionist objectives of these financial foreign interests in\u00a0 Greece. Yet this time, their political strategies and procedures had to take into account the higher level\u00a0 of\u00a0 education and socio-political consciousness of the average Greek Citizen, but also that their “conspiratorial” and “technical”\u00a0 distortion of the progressive process of history\u00a0 and culture\u00a0 would have to be\u00a0 transmitted in an “unconscious” and “permanent” way to the great majority of\u00a0 Greek Society. It would have to be a society which accepts that which is fanciful but not real; a “virtual image” of people, events and acts, since human judgement, human initiative and human social consciousness would have been greatly weakened. This role of\u00a0 the more modern and sophisticated middleman was chosen to be played by Andreas Papandreou,\u00a0with \u00a0political\u00a0 tool the political party he had founded in 1974, the Pan-Hellenic Socialist Party or\u00a0 PASOK.<\/p>\n
Foreign economic organizations which had invested\u00a0 a lot of time and precious material(political conspiracies, political and military alliances, expert manpower, military hardware, financial support) \u00a0for many\u00a0 years, so that \u00a0they could control the\u00a0 Greek\u00a0 State\u00a0 and its citizens, had to choose a political figure which\u00a0 could function not only as a “trusted middleman” but also as a\u00a0 political “hocus pocus” person. He would\u00a0 have to be an experienced and\u00a0 educated political figure who would have\u00a0 perfect understanding of the “psychology” of the average Greek person and who would also have easy access\u00a0 to a certain\u00a0 section\u00a0 of\u00a0 Greece\u2019s Political Establishment and\u00a0 Greece\u2019s\u00a0 Popular Base. More importantly, he would have to project the “image”\u00a0\u00a0 of a dynamic and conscientious “antiestablishment” and\u00a0 “socialist”\u00a0 activist\u00a0 who is able\u00a0 to defend the political independence, the economic self-sufficiency\u00a0 and the social development\u00a0 of\u00a0 all Greek Citizens, especially those belonging to the underprivileged classes. As to the manner by which\u00a0 Andreas Papandreou utilized all of these human and political ingredients, time itself\u00a0 and historical events would soon reveal perfectly clearly, even after the completion of his “assigned political task”,\u00a0 many years after his own death. Its epilogue being the “nightmarish” state of affairs which\u00a0 the Greek Peoples and the Greek\u00a0 Nation are experiencing at the present time!!!<\/p>\n
The quality of the “hocus pocus man” defined the political evolution of\u00a0 Andreas Papandreou as well as his own personality. He used this “personality syndrome” with great mastery(charismatic, eloquent, direct)\u00a0 in order to influence Greek Public Opinion as well as all aspects of everyday\u00a0 Greek life, once he was elected Prime Minister of Greece in 1981 and his political\u00a0 party(PASOK) would hold the majority of seats in the Greek\u00a0 Parliament.<\/p>\n
The quality of the “hocus pocus man” we first discover it\u00a0 during the student years of\u00a0 Andreas Papandreou, when with 3\u00a0 of his schoolmates at the private College of\u00a0 Athens, he\u00a0 edits a\u00a0 Marxist magazine with the title “Ksekinima” or a\u00a0 New\u00a0 Start, while during his university days at the end of the 1930s, he became a member of a Trotskyite political organization.<\/p>\n
He was not able to complete his\u00a0 studies\u00a0 at the University of Economics of\u00a0 Athens, the reason being that the then Fascist Greek Government arrested and imprisoned him on charges that he was a dangerous “leftist activist” and a threat to the Greek State. Nevertheless, with the aid of\u00a0 his father,\u00a0 George\u00a0 Papandreou, who was an old and well established politician, he was given permission to move to the\u00a0 United States. In 1943, Andreas Papandreou received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University while he also volunteered to serve in the American Navy during WWII, allowing him to receive the\u00a0 American\u00a0 Citizenship.<\/p>\n
Now, the big question for me personally, as someone who has lived in North America for many years, is how a person who is an avowed Marxist can receive such preferential treatment from the American Authorities and America\u2019s Academic Establishment?? This exact question becomes even more relevant when we\u00a0 observe\u00a0 that Andreas Papandreou<\/p>\n
during the 1940s and the 1950s, was offered the\u00a0 teaching positions of\u00a0 professor at powerful and influential universities such as\u00a0 Harvard University, the University of\u00a0 Minnesota and the\u00a0 University of\u00a0 California. At that period in American History and in\u00a0 American\u00a0 Politics, there was intense government and public persecution against all\u00a0 American citizens who prescribed\u00a0 or were friendly to leftist political ideas, especially in the arts and in the academic world. How was\u00a0 Andreas Papandreou able to be accepted by the American Government and by\u00a0 America\u2019s Academic Establishment when these powerful socio-political institutions considered Communism as the Great Threat and the Great Enemy of\u00a0 America??<\/p>\n
Another\u00a0 “ideological\u00a0 stumbling block” related to the “true path” taken\u00a0 by Andreas Papandreou\u00a0 as a\u00a0 Socialist, and also taking into account that his father, George Papandreou, was\u00a0 the leader of\u00a0 the Centre Union Party\u00a0 and the political opposition to a conservative Greek government(the Centre Union Party\u00a0 supported a policy which reflected the aspirations of the popular masses and\u00a0 defended\u00a0 the country\u2019s\u00a0 national integrity), we\u00a0 witness Andreas\u00a0 Papandreou returning to Greece in 1961, by personal invitation from the then conservative Prime Minister of\u00a0 Greece, Konstantinos G. Karamanlis. who\u00a0 assigned to him key state positions which dealt with the future economic planning of the country. Andreas Papandreou became Chairman of the Board of\u00a0 Directors and General Director of the newly founded Athens Economic Research Centre, a state organization which for the first time could\u00a0 define coherently the directives for the future economic policies of the government, while he was also assigned the position of Economic Advisor to the\u00a0 Central\u00a0 Bank of Greece. And here once again, I put forward the question, how is it possible that a “conservative” and\u00a0 “right wing”\u00a0 Prime Minister\u00a0 consents\u00a0 to providing so many state privileges and powers to someone who is a confessed\u00a0 Socialist and whose father\u00a0 headed\u00a0 a political party(Centre Union Party) which\u00a0 was the opposition party in the Greek\u00a0 Parliament and\u00a0 which embodied\u00a0 important ideological differences relative to the conservative governing party of\u00a0 Konstantinos G. Karamanlis????<\/p>\n
The answer is very\u00a0 simple, since it refers to the political “hocus pocus man”,\u00a0 Andreas Papandreou. In the\u00a0 United\u00a0 States, when\u00a0 Andreas\u00a0 Papandreou\u00a0 was professor and a theoretician in international economics, he always supported the mainstream views of\u00a0 American Economic Theories of that time, which briefly meant economic development based on the needs of the International\u00a0 American\u00a0 Capitalist\u00a0 System; an increase in the average income through higher production but with\u00a0 final goal\u00a0 the increase in the mass consumption of goods and services. On the same level of thinking, Andreas Papandreou in 1944, who was then 25 years old and associate professor in economics at\u00a0 Harvard\u00a0 University, became one of the 5 member team\u00a0 representing\u00a0 Greece at the\u00a0 International\u00a0 Bretton\u00a0 Woods\u00a0 Conference\u00a0 which would define the structures and the international balances of\u00a0 the\u00a0 International\u00a0 Capitalist\u00a0 System until the oil\u00a0 crises in the 1970s.<\/p>\n
Even more critical concerning the\u00a0 political and ideological\u00a0\u00a0 “meandering” of\u00a0 Andreas Papandreou\u00a0 was the fact that\u00a0 he was elected member of parliament for the first time in 1964 with his father\u2019s political party, the Centre Union Party. At that time, the Centre Union Party had become Greece\u2019s governing party and\u00a0 Andreas Papandreou\u00a0 was appointed by his father as\u00a0 Minister to the First Ministry or effectively\u00a0 assistant\u00a0 Prime Minister, soon also acquiring the position of\u00a0 Minister of\u00a0 Economic and Political\u00a0 Coordination. Andreas Papandreou was essentially “the right hand man” to his father, the Prime Minister of\u00a0 Greece, and “second in command” in the country\u2019s\u00a0 political\u00a0 hierarchy. Yet, even within the political party which had permitted him to become a member in the Greek\u00a0 Parliament and very soon a powerful political player in\u00a0 Greece\u2019s political affairs, Andreas Papandreou in 1965 clashed with his father “head on” and tried to remove him as Prime Minister in a failed political coup, using a section of\u00a0 Greece\u2019s\u00a0 Military Establishment and some members of parliament. I\u00a0 personally believe that this drastic political initiative by\u00a0 Andreas Papandreou\u00a0 was directly related to the “national stance” adopted by his father, the Greek Prime Minister, who was openly demonstrating his discomfort and unease concerning the increase in the number of political interventions by the United States into Greece\u2019s internal affairs, as well as his steafast position in defending politically and militarily the independence and the territorial integrity of\u00a0 Cyprus, with Archbishop Makarios as its elected President.<\/p>\n
As we can therefore clearly\u00a0 see, the\u00a0 “pseudo”\u00a0 Socialist and the “pseudo”\u00a0 Patriot,\u00a0 was\u00a0 constantly implementing\u00a0 the political guidelines\u00a0 and the political objectives of the\u00a0 Americans, and naturally those of the international financial organizations with respect to\u00a0 Greece. To\u00a0 make myself even more convincing, I would like to mention a real historical fact concerning the political rise of\u00a0 Andreas Papandreou in\u00a0 Greece. When\u00a0 Andreas Papandreou became a\u00a0 full member of the Centre Union Party of his\u00a0 father in 1961, many of the old party cadres, especially the ones belonging\u00a0 to its\u00a0 Liberal wing, accused him of being a kind of\u00a0 “parachutist”(aleksiptotistis) in\u00a0 Greek politics, since they could not understand or fathom how someone who had arrived from nowhere, was able in a very short time, evolve into one of the most well known and popular Greek political figures, behaving with\u00a0 enormous self-confidence and even despotism. I believe that all these political and historical events were not at all accidental or circumstantial- they had been programmed in detail beforehand, so that one day\u00a0 Andreas Papandreou could become Prime Minister of\u00a0 Greece and the absolute “feudal lord”(Greece\u2019s outdated political culture) of all the Greek domains. Nevertheless, a “feudal lord” who would constantly\u00a0 have to present\u00a0 and confirm his credentials to the leaders\u00a0 of a world empire(international money and securities organizations), and also “follow\u00a0 to the letter” their orders!!!!<\/p>\n
As\u00a0 I\u00a0 have already mentioned, the political\u00a0 strategies and as a consequence the economic strategies of the “world money and securities organizations”\u00a0 relative to\u00a0 Greece contained\u00a0 since\u00a0 the country\u2019s\u00a0 inception\u00a0 in 1830, three specific objectives or expectations. The first was a\u00a0\u00a0 fragile(corruptible) state or state infrastructure, the second\u00a0 was\u00a0 a fragile(corruptible) society\u00a0 politically and economically, and the third objective was the geopolitical and cultural isolation of\u00a0 Greece, especially in relation to the Developed\u00a0 Western States. These\u00a0\u00a0 strategies or objectives now had\u00a0 to\u00a0 be applied by\u00a0 Andreas\u00a0 Papandreou in\u00a0 Greece, always taking into\u00a0 account the specific political, economic, social and cultural circumstances which were in place at the time. As Prime Minister of\u00a0 Greece after 1981,\u00a0 and with a political party(PASOK)\u00a0 holding the absolute majority of seats in the\u00a0 Greek\u00a0 Parliament, Andreas Papandreou as a very talented “hocus pocus”\u00a0 politician, succeeded\u00a0 with his “leftist” and\u00a0 “ethnocentric” political rhetoric to bring to his camp many of the politically active democratic and leftist Greek voters, thus undermining the electoral base of the “progressive” centre-leftist\u00a0 and leftist political parties which could have put many ideological restrains as political opposition(within and outside Parliament) to his “foreign inspired national policies”. The political slogans or mottos of\u00a0 PASOK\u00a0 since its inception in 1974, such as “National Independence, Popular Rule, Social Liberation”, as well as those coming from\u00a0 Andreas himself,\u00a0 such as the statement he made in 1974 within the Greek Parliament, contradicting the then conservative Prime Minister, Konstantinos G. Karamanlis, by saying that “Greece did not belong to the West\u00a0 but to the Greek peoples”, attracted to his political movement and to himself a wide range of political and social forces; forces which in the past did not have common political beliefs or strategies concerning the future of the country. Most of these political slogans or maxims coming officially from\u00a0 PASOK\u00a0 and unofficially from Andreas himself,\u00a0 were without any “real substance” or any “real content” within the context of realizable or pragmatic guidelines for social development; they were just “wishy washy” thoughts and impressionable commentaries, very much in touch with the psychology of the average Greek person who doesn\u2019t really like to ponder over serious matters. As we all know, the average Greek adores “overstuffed utterances” and these are the codes which shape and determine his everyday style of communication and social behaviour; surely it\u2019s not the factor of\u00a0 “great deeds”. Everyday\u00a0 communication slogans such as “I\u00a0 feel great”, “It\u2019s perfect”, “you are the best”, “I adore you”, “I gave all of me”, “I didn\u2019t\u00a0 deserve it”, and many, many\u00a0 other\u00a0 “trifle” brief daily statements, and as one very\u00a0 popular traditional song says, “all these false utter words you told me since the first time you breastfed me”!!! Therefore, the political slogans for “change”(alaggi), the theoretical social change that Andreas Papandreou\u00a0 and his “leftist” political party\u00a0 presented as the “centre piece” of their national policy, as well as the three ideological poles of “National Independence, Popular Rule, Social Liberation” decreed in the party\u2019s manifesto in 1974, in time and through the directives\u00a0 of foreign political and economic centres evolved into the simple\u00a0 and simplistic popular Greek saying which prescribes the following: \u201cAll you can eat, all you can drink and all that your ass can take\u201d!!! An old\u00a0 Greek saying which soon most\u00a0 Greeks “took to their heart” and “to their lives”, and it\u2019s exactly the reason why today\u00a0 they are paying such a\u00a0 “very high price”!!!<\/p>\n
As we have already confirmed, Andreas Papandreou with his political party, PASOK, was aiming at controlling and then guiding the souls and\u00a0 thoughts of the Greek peoples, and he fully succeeded at that through a variety of strategies which would\u00a0 finally provide him with an absolute dominance over all sectors of the social, political, economic and cultural life of the country; many times utilizing non-democratic and autarchic means. The\u00a0 “key formula” for this absolute dominance by\u00a0 Andreas Papandreou, his political party and its higher cadres(ministers, parliamentarians, general secretaries, administrators and presidents of state banks, deans and\u00a0 professors of\u00a0 state\u00a0 universities, officers in the Armed Forces, etc.), was to transform the\u00a0 Greek\u00a0 State into an enormous “cliental enterprise” and its citizens into\u00a0 “loyal clients”, whether they were entrepreneurs, judges, bankers , military officers, academics, artists, or union leaders, or heads of public administration and state enterprises, and especially the personnel who were in charge of the state run mass media. A\u00a0 “cliental relationship” means that every\u00a0 Greek\u00a0 Citizen who abides “faithfully”\u00a0 and\u00a0 “blindly” to the\u00a0 general guidelines set forth by the absolute power of the state and the political party which embodies it, could realize his or her personal expectations or dreams, whether they are “real” or\u00a0 “iconic”. A\u00a0 “personal dream” can be a\u00a0 position in the civil service or in a state enterprise with exorbitant salaries and work privileges, or it could be “the easy\u00a0 way to riches” for a\u00a0 “pseudo\u00a0 entrepreneur” who is assigned state projects while at the same time manages “private” mass media enterprises\u00a0 which are indirectly financed by state funds(state advertisement)\u00a0 or are directly\u00a0 supported\u00a0 by special state facilities and freedoms.<\/p>\n
We know that during the 1970s,\u00a0 Andreas\u00a0 Papandreou with his “political slogans” and with the dynamic mobilization of the Greek masses by his political party through their local political organizations throughout Greece, was able to gradually disseminate the forces of the other political parties, “focusing” his efforts especially on those parties which belonged ideologically to the centre-left and to the left in the political spectrum. Andreas Papandreou not only undermined the electoral base of these “progressive” political parties, he also brought into his own political camp many of their cadres who held critical administrative posts and union positions in the state infrastructure, in the work place, in education and in the mass means of communication and entertainment. There is little or no doubt that\u00a0 Andreas Papandreou\u00a0 was in “perfect touch”\u00a0 with the psychology of the “average”\u00a0 Greek person, therefore he knew perfectly well that this “average” Greek person had lived for many, many years under many economic restraints and shortfalls, while he also knew that the real expectations or\u00a0 dreams of an “average”\u00a0 Greek person\u00a0 generally entailed\u00a0 themselves personally(egotism), which could be translated as the opportunities and the means to personally acquire\u00a0 greater buying\u00a0 power and material goods, considering\u00a0 it as secondary the quality of life of the whole of\u00a0 Greek\u00a0 Society which comprised\u00a0 other elements and dimensions within everyday life existence .<\/p>\n
It\u2019s on this type of propensity for\u00a0 “individualism”\u00a0 and\u00a0 “materialism” of the average Greek person that\u00a0 Andreas Papandreou invested fully, simply by providing everyone with “plenty of money”, something almost unknown in the past and never really imagined. So with time and calculated steps, a greedy, unsociable, antagonistic, immoral, exhibitionistic and an “all consumer” human specie was created who would sacrifice “everything and anyone” in order to acquire as much wealth and property, and so be glorified by his peers and his close acquaintances as the prototype of a truly successful\u00a0 individual\u00a0 and a really “smooth player”(mangas)!!! From now on, every “active social person” would have his or her own value tag in “cash money”, and not in a meritorious or honour value. It would be “the pocket money” for the doctor for better medical care, the “pay offs” to politicians for state deals, the “bribes” to civil servants for quick services, the “buying” of judges for lenient court decisions, the “money donations” to priests for a place in Heaven, the “money exchange” to tax inspectors for tax evasion, and thousands of other such everyday “illegal” money\u00a0 transactions that we all “law abiding” Greek Citizens today consider them as “normal” and “natural”, and sometimes we are even envious of the successful and shrewd techniques of\u00a0 others. Our “modern” social stance as Greek\u00a0 Citizens to want “to be Glorified”\u00a0 because we are more cunning than the rest, we owe it to a large degree to the “national policies”\u00a0 and the “life philosophy” of\u00a0 Andreas Papandreou and his political party; a historical fact which is now “haunting” the souls and\u00a0 minds of most Greek Citizens today!!!<\/p>\n
Andreas Papandreou\u00a0 served\u00a0 as\u00a0 Prime\u00a0 Minister of\u00a0 Greece\u00a0 from\u00a0 October\u00a0 1981\u00a0 to\u00a0 July\u00a0 1989, and\u00a0 from\u00a0 October\u00a0 1993\u00a0 to\u00a0 January 1996. He died in June 1996, at the age of 77.<\/p>\n
It is a historical fact that from 1981 until\u00a0 1985, when\u00a0 Andreas Papandreou was re-elected\u00a0 for a second term as\u00a0 Prime Minister of\u00a0 Greece(receiving 46%\u00a0 of the popular vote while his party retained the majority of seats in the\u00a0 Greek\u00a0 Parliament), there was economic prosperity in all of\u00a0 Greek\u00a0 Society, especially for the middle and\u00a0 lower\u00a0 classes. With a strong and very soon, an all powerful PASOK\u00a0 government, the ideal “iconic”\u00a0 economic preconditions\u00a0 as well as the ideal “artificial” social environment were set up in order to\u00a0 produce a dramatic rise in the buying power of the “average” Greek person; the approximate level\u00a0 being around 26%\u00a0 for the public sector which was naturally passed on to the private sector due to a “well manipulated” supply and demand of manpower, resulting from an economy largely controlled by the state(cliental state). The\u00a0 economic formula was to a large degree quite simple- the rapid growth and expansion\u00a0 of the country\u2019s public sector by hiring thousands of people for a multitude of positions in the\u00a0 public services as well as in the private enterprises which had been systematically nationalized. The state took control of “strategic” private enterprises owned\u00a0 by powerful\u00a0 Greek trusts and\u00a0 Greek families(financial establishment),\u00a0 like the bauxite mines of LARCO(basic mineral for the production of nickel), the powerful enterprise PIRKAL which produced military weaponry, the cement mines and factories of\u00a0 AGET-IRAKLIS, the Hellenic Steel Mills, the shipyards of\u00a0 Skaramanga, the textile mills of Piraiki-Patraiki, the petroleum company of\u00a0 Esso-Pappas, and many other dynamic private enterprises which represented<\/p>\n
a large proportion of the country\u2019s manufacturing sector.\u00a0 As\u00a0 with all civil employees, the thousands of individuals\u00a0 who were hired to work for those “nationalized enterprises”, acquired instantly the same “legal status”, which meant a high income and “employment permanency”. It is\u00a0 therefore not unusual to witness from that period on (until the present\u00a0 day), a public sector, especially the non-productive divisions, experiencing a constant expansion, while the private\u00a0 sector having a continuous decline, especially in industry. Very soon, the Greek products of the “nationalized enterprises” became non-competitive in the world markets due to the high labour cost, putting a high financial burden on the finances of the state since it had to subsidize their deficits, while Andreas Papandreou “was forced” to devalue the drachma(national currency) in 1983 and again in 1985. These devaluations of\u00a0 Greece\u2019s national currency were aimed\u00a0 at helping the country\u2019s exports in becoming more price competitive, thus “in theory” improving the country\u2019s “trade balance”(the value of exports compared to the value of imports). In the long run, these\u00a0 “artificial” financial measures by the PASOK government\u00a0 did not have a “positive impact” on the economy of\u00a0 Greece, because the “hocus pocus man”, Andreas Papandreou, not only had increased the buying power of the “average” Greek person, he had also promoted\u00a0 the human appetite for large scale personal consumption(the ideal lifestyle as advertised by the Greek mass media), especially in expensive imported goods. With a devalued drachma, the value of\u00a0 imported products greatly increased, producing through time an ever increasing “trade deficit”(which still continues), and naturally a financial debt towards all\u00a0 foreign suppliers which had to be paid in hard currency, through internal and external financial loans, coming mostly from “international banks”\u00a0 and\u00a0 “international money and securities organizations”!!!<\/p>\n
During\u00a0 the 1980s, the\u00a0 financing of an “over expanded”\u00a0 public\u00a0 sector came to a large degree from\u00a0 Greek banks(internal debt) which\u00a0 Andreas Papandreou had nationalized or had put\u00a0 under state control, while their administrators and directors were directly appointed by\u00a0 Andreas Papandreou\u00a0 personally; an “unorthodox”\u00a0 government arrangement\u00a0 which made it easier for the continuation of “internal financing” by Greek State Banks. After 1990, Greek governments turned to\u00a0 foreign banks for this type of financing, therefore increasing Greece\u2019s\u00a0 foreign debt, while they also privatized many of these Greek State Banks. So, until 1989, Andreas Papandreou\u00a0 and his political party directly supervised the country\u2019s banking system, and\u00a0 he used this “questionable” institutional status not only to define and determine the type of financing of the public sector, but to also to assist financially all those “pseudo” Greek entrepreneurs who supported his non-productive and non-developmental economic policies. This new generation of\u00a0 Greek “entrepreneurs”, meaning the majority of\u00a0 Greek businessmen who invested in\u00a0 “making a quick buck”, were\u00a0 state financiers and those involved in\u00a0 state construction projects, loan-shark bankers and middlemen\u00a0 “carpetbaggers” responsible\u00a0 for the distribution of state funds. One of the many\u00a0 “illicit” ways that\u00a0 Andreas Papandreou and his “political lackeys” bolstered up the various State\u00a0 Banks which were under their control was to make at tactical times large transfers of\u00a0 funds\u00a0 from the money reserves of\u00a0 the various\u00a0 State Insurance Organizations and\u00a0 State Enterprises to these banks; investing this money at a lower rate of interest from what these organizations would obtain in the International Investment and\u00a0 Securities Markets. For example, the money reserves of the State Insurance Organizations which\u00a0 were being transferred to Greece\u2019s State Banks,\u00a0 revitalized these banks not only by increasing their capital reserves but also through a “technically manipulated” low interest rate\u00a0 which was fixed essentially by the government, these\u00a0 Banks made large profits from the difference in the interest rate they were lending this money to their customers.<\/p>\n
The politicians, the government officials, the administrators of State Insurance Organizations, and many high civil servants\u00a0 who\u00a0 “consciously” and “deliberately”\u00a0 participated in this “illegal” and “financially fraudulent” banking ploy, a\u00a0 “financial conspiracy” instigated by Andreas Papandreou and his government, were in fact directly and systematically “withdrawing” or “stealing” large chunks of money which had been paid by\u00a0 Greek workers\u00a0 and employees as insurance tax on their revenues, so that they could receive full medical care and when they retire, an income which\u00a0 could cover their everyday basic needs. At this point, we have to emphasize the fact that\u00a0 all of these politicians, civil\u00a0 servants, bankers, etc., who participated in all of these “unlawful banking activities”, did not do it instinctually or because of their political loyalty to Andreas Papandreou and his “socialist” party; they acted on it because through these “illegal financial initiatives” each one of them was making a lot of money. A large percentage of this “dirty money” came from the value difference between the “government assigned” interest rates which these state funds\u00a0 were receiving when they were being invested in State Banks and the competitive interest rates which these same State Banks were charging on loans to their own customers.<\/p>\n
The financial-political scandal with the Bank of Crete, the\u00a0 “scandal”\u00a0 which in 1991 had\u00a0 Andreas Papandreou\u00a0 tried\u00a0 by a Special\u00a0 Court\u00a0 appointed by the Greek Parliament, represents just a small “photo simile” of the numerous “illegal bank transactions” implicating politicians, managers of\u00a0 state banks, administrators of state enterprises, secretaries of various government ministries and many other “official” and “unofficial” Greek swindlers. The basic accusation in this trial was that in 1988, the then Prime Minister of\u00a0 Greece, Andreas Papandreou, had with his close political functionaries, the top administrators of state enterprises and state banks presidents, made large money transfers from the\u00a0 reserves of state owned enterprises to the\u00a0 Bank of\u00a0 Crete, a state owned bank. They had\u00a0 fixed the interest rates of those state funds at extremely low levels, thus producing a 200 million dollar profit for this particular bank, which was then divided among the various “protagonists” of this “illicit financial affair”. In 1992, Parliament\u2019s\u00a0 Special Court\u00a0 acquitted Andreas Papandreou of all\u00a0 “criminal charges” by a vote of 7 to 6, because once again in Greece\u2019s\u00a0 political and justice system what\u00a0 prevails is the “law of silence” or “Omerta”, as it is called by the Italian Mafia in Sicily.<\/p>\n
The financial-political scandal involving the Bank of Crete and the Greek government is just but a small sample of the hundreds and thousands of\u00a0 “shady” state transactions which are still very omnipotent, even at a time when Greece is going bankrupt!!!<\/p>\n
The main cause for this “horrible state of affairs” in Greece during the last 30 years, originates in\u00a0 the political\u00a0 “strategy” of\u00a0 Andreas Papandreou, of his\u00a0 “political comrades” and of his “foreign mentors” in order to create and fortify the most effective “cliental state” and the most effective “cliental\u00a0 state apparatus” which would eventually transform all\u00a0 Greek Citizens into “subservient hostages”, captivated by and completely infatuated with a well formulated “unethical” and “egocentric” social behaviour whose real everyday motto which is still preponderant, is an old Greek popular saying which goes as follows: \u201c Go in mongrels and eat what you can, and leave no tit bits behind\u201d!!! During the last 30 years, almost no Greek\u00a0 Citizen who has been implicated in the hundreds and thousands of financial scandals related to Greece\u2019s “cliental state apparatus” has gone to prison; a historical record not only among the developed states of the world but also among the developing and the underdeveloped ones.<\/p>\n
The “cliental state” which\u00a0 Andreas Papandreou had constructed under the “guidance” and\u00a0 “auspices” of the various “foreign financial interest groups” was\u00a0 comprised of\u00a0 tools and mechanisms which would obstruct and undermine any type of\u00a0 a real social merit system, real creative and constructive work, real state justice, real democracy, real culture and real social moral ethics. The basic social criteria for almost all of the Greek peoples from the time Andreas Papandreou became Prime minister of\u00a0 Greece until the present day, has been\u00a0 to project to society a “smart” and\u00a0 “cunning” image(the Aristotle Onassis type), to bargain one\u2019s soul and ideas at the best “convenient price”, and\u00a0 the disposition\u00a0 of\u00a0 personal connections with individuals who have some\u00a0 type of access and influence within the state\u2019s\u00a0 “cliental mechanisms”. At this point I would like to refer to\u00a0 some financial data which demonstrate accurately the “technical distortion” inflicted on Greece\u2019s economic development\u00a0 by the various “national” policies of\u00a0 Andreas Papandreou and of\u00a0 his “socialist”\u00a0 government. From\u00a0 1981, we witness a reversal in the economic progress of the country, since in 1981, Greece had a per capita G.N.P.(Gross\u00a0 National Product) equal to 70%\u00a0 of the\u00a0 European\u00a0 Community\u2019s average,\u00a0 dropping in 1990 to 60%\u00a0 of that\u00a0 average; this always taking into consideration that from 1985 until 1989, Greece had received financial aid packages from the European\u00a0 Community\u00a0 worth billions of euros by means of\u00a0 the\u00a0 Integrated Mediterranean Programs(IMPs),\u00a0 whose aim\u00a0 was to support financially the less developed regions of the Community.<\/p>\n
As we have already noted, from the time since the modern\u00a0 Greek state was founded(1830),the expansionist ambitions of\u00a0 those “international financial groups” involved in Greece\u2019s geopolitical territory\u00a0 were\u00a0 based on\u00a0 3\u00a0 specific strategies, a fragile(corruptible)\u00a0 state or state infrastructure, a fragile(corruptible)\u00a0 society politically and economically, and finally the isolation of the country geopolitically but also culturally, especially in relation to the developed states of the West. In every historical epoch, the tools and the inputs varied\u00a0 in response to the\u00a0 particular international and internal political and social circumstances, nevertheless, the elements which remained constant and integral were the factors of\u00a0 “political conspiracy” and naturally of a “national sell off” by the largest section of\u00a0 Greece\u2019s Economic and Political Establishment. Arriving now at the “all politically inspiring”\u00a0 period of Andreas Papandreou, meaning the 1980s and the 1990s, these\u00a0 foreign expansionist strategies for Greece had to be executed in a more “sophisticated” and “modern”\u00a0 way because they had to take into account a more politically mature and better informed Greek Society, as well as the successful completion of a long term “conspiratorial plan” which would ensure the “complete bankruptcy” of\u00a0 Greece, as a state, as a nation and as a society!!! The “terminal” and\u00a0 “irreversible” economic bankruptcy\u00a0 of the Greek State and of\u00a0 Greek Society, thus providing those “international money and securities organizations” with the means, the opportunities and the prerequisites to wholly control all the social, political and economic affairs and developments of the country.<\/p>\n
From our various political and historical accounts, we have established that\u00a0 Andreas Papandreou as Prime Minister of Greece and even before, as a major political player in\u00a0 Parliament\u2019s\u00a0 political opposition, was “able and willing” to gradually and methodically produce a fragile(corruptible) state or state mechanisms, as well as a fragile(corruptible) society politically and economically. Now, we shall witness how this “hocus pocus” Greek political figure and Greek political leader succeeded through his “distorted” and “ethnocentric” national policies in isolating his country geopolitically and culturally, especially from the powerful and developed states of the West.<\/p>\n
Before becoming Prime Minister of\u00a0 Greece in 1981, Andreas Papandreou with his political party, PASOK, as political opposition in the Greek Parliament, communicated\u00a0 to the Greek Public political slogans such as “out of NATO, out of the European Economic Community(E.E.C.)!!!”, as well as “the E.E.C. and\u00a0 NATO are the same Syndicate!!!”. What these short statements were supposed to infer “ideologically” and “politically” was that in the Party\u2019s political platform, it was officially recognized that the E.E.C. and NATO were both partners in an “expansionist front”,\u00a0 whose goals were to exploit and control politically and economically “the fortunes of the masses”, especially “the masses” of\u00a0 the Western European States. This “exaggerated political propaganda”, in principle representing a “leftist”\u00a0 and a “radical” political line, had a very positive response from\u00a0 large sections of the Greek Public, since it touched a Greek person\u2019s exaggerated\u00a0 “ethnocentricity” and the typical Greek “ethnic bravado”!!! It was natural that this political stance by a major Greek political party would create an “antagonistic” and “lukewarm” climate in\u00a0 Greece\u2019s relations with the United\u00a0 States and the member states of the\u00a0 European Economic Community.<\/p>\n
The natural tendency of a Greek person\u2019s “xenophobia” and\u00a0 “mistrust” in relation to the West, Andreas Papandreou reinforced it even further, even though as a good “hocus pocus”\u00a0 Prime Minister he decided that\u00a0 Greece should remain a full and active member state of the E.E.C. and\u00a0 NATO. First of all, the government of\u00a0 PASOK, Andreas Papandreou\u2019s\u00a0 political party, undertook immediate negotiations with the\u00a0 United\u00a0 States to remove its military bases from\u00a0 Greek soil, but finally the Prime Minister agreed that the most important military bases would remain since they played a vital role in\u00a0 NATO\u2019s\u00a0 defence network. Before becoming Prime Minister of Greece, Andreas Papandreou had\u00a0 initiated friendly relations with various Arab political leaders who the West then considered as dangerous to their economic and political interests in the Eastern Mediterranean and in the Middle East. Arab political leaders such as Muammar Kaddaffi\u00a0 of Libya, Saddam Hussein of Iraq\u00a0 and Yasser\u00a0 Arafat, head of the Palestinians and the Palestinian Political\u00a0 Movement. At the same time, Andreas Papandreou and his “socialist” government supported the “anti-imperialist” political positions of the Movement of the Non-Aligned\u00a0 Nations\u00a0 which aimed at “promoting peace and progress for all mankind”, as well as “the termination of the nuclear arms race between the United States and the then Soviet Union”, but in essence the main focus of this\u00a0 Movement\u2019s\u00a0 political critique was the expansionist policies of the United States internationally.<\/p>\n
With respect now to the European Economic Community and the states which represented it, Andreas Papandreou\u00a0 even before undertaking the responsibilities of\u00a0 Prime Minister in 1981, had “manufactured” all those preconditions and the political environment so that the relations of Greece with the\u00a0 E.E.C.\u00a0 would always be “controversial”\u00a0 and\u00a0 “unstable”; and of course we should not forget the fact that the European Community with its international economic influence and dynamism represented the “rival capitalist protagonist” to the United States in the Western World and\u00a0 in the International Community. Therefore, as\u00a0 George Papandreou, the recent\u00a0 Prime Minister of Greece(2009-2011) and a real “American friend”, so it was with Andreas Papandreou his father, also a real “American friend”\u00a0 but very well “camouflaged”, that all was tried to undermine the economic and political integrity and influence of the European Union internally and in the international arena. In 2010, George Papandreou as Prime Minister of Greece, had signed an official agreement paper which provided Greece with a loan of 80 billion euros from the International Monetary Fund(I.M.F.), the European Central Bank and the member states of the Euro Zone(states using the euro as their national currency). His “premeditated crime” was not only a “national” one, since with this official agreement Greece was relinquishing “permanently” and “unconditionally” any immunity protected by its national sovereignty, thus satisfying the demands of its lenders, it was also a “conspiratorial political crime” against the unifying and independent economic entity of the European Union, since it was the first time that the I.M.F. was permitted institutionally to intervene and “have a say” in the economic affairs and policies of the European Community, an international financial institution which is directly controlled by American Financial Interests. A year later, in 2011, the same “bipolar” Prime\u00a0 Minister officially announced that he intended to carry out a general referendum which would simply ask Greek voters if they want to remain in the\u00a0 Euro Zone, accepting all financial obligations to their lenders, or leave the Euro Zone altogether and as a natural consequence\u00a0 leave the European Union. This “deliberate” and “questionable” political move resulted in creating\u00a0 ” havoc”\u00a0 in all\u00a0 the financial markets of the world, especially within the European Community, since there was fear that a possible departure of\u00a0 Greece from the Euro Zone\u00a0 with its excessive debts to its foreign lenders, this would spark off a general economic crisis within the European Community which in turn would bring to the forefront the debt problems of other member states. Finally, the referendum did not take place but the damage had been done “one more time”, putting Greece “on a terrible spot” since the country was seen internationally as a “financial trouble maker”, which also involved the economic stability and integrity of the European Union, a very important player in the world\u2019s trade markets.<\/p>\n
Konstantinos G. Karamanlis (1907-1998) represented one of the most important political figures of\u00a0 the Conservatives in Greece after WWII, and with Andreas Papandreou(1919-1996) they were the two political personalities who practically fashioned the “make up” and the “structure” of the modern Greek State after the Second World\u00a0 War. Konstantinos\u00a0 G. Karamanlis served as Prime Minister of Greece from\u00a0 1958 until 1963, and from 1974 until 1980. He also served as President of the Greek Republic from 1980 until 1985, and from 1990 until 1995. Even though in 1961 he was forced by the United States Administration to receive Andreas Papandreou back to Greece\u00a0 and\u00a0 allow him to play a major role in the country\u2019s economic and political affairs, and even though the United States controlling the political strategies of NATO pressured him in 1974, as Prime Minister of Greece, not to provide military aid to the Cypriot Government of\u00a0 Archbishop Makarios after the second Turkish military invasion(Attila II) of\u00a0 the island resulting in its “de facto” partition, he had always been a “pro-European” Greek politician, contrary to the well camouflaged “pro-American” political stance of Andreas Papandreou. This is exactly the main reason why Andreas Papandreou opposed and fought so vehemently the national strategy of Konstantinos G. Karamanlis, as well as undermining the latter\u2019s political status and integrity. Their political differences were not “ideological” but in essence originated from the historical fact that they had\u00a0 different “foreign mentors” who guided and supported them!!!<\/p>\n
From the 1930s, the liberal Greek political parties aimed\u00a0 at\u00a0 Greece becoming a vital partner in the economic, political and cultural evolution of the developed countries of Western Europe. It was natural then, that after long term official discussions and negotiations with the then Prime Minister Konstantinos G. Karamanlis, there was the signing in 1962 of an association agreement with the European Community, making it the first state with an “associated status”. The economic advantages for Greece were many, as for example the abolition of tariffs and restrictive measures concerning Greek products within the European Community, the automatic abolition of tariffs with respect to the main exporting goods of Greece, the synchronization of Greece\u2019s agricultural policies with those of the European Economic Community, and of course there was substantial financial aid “in the form of loans” from the European Investment Bank. In 1963, Konstantinos G. Karamanlis, even though he was the leader of a powerful conservative political party with a liberal political platform( E.R.E), he suddenly left “incognito” from Greece, establishing himself in Paris, France, where he resided until his return to Greece in July 1974, by invitation of some of the top colonels of the Greek Military Junta which was on the brink of\u00a0 political collapse. It is said that Konstantinos G. Karamanlis left Greece in 1963 “at a moment\u2019s notice”, using a false name, because he was informed by some of\u00a0 Greece\u2019s secret services that the Queen of Greece, Queen\u00a0 Frederica, had ordered his assassination. In 1974, Konstantinos G. Karamanlis founded the conservative “New Democracy” political party with which he won Greece\u2019s Parliamentary Elections in 1974 and in 1977, serving as the country\u2019s Prime Minister until 1980. Here, I would like to refer to a real historical event which occurred in July 1974, and this was that Konstantinos G. Karamanlis when he returned to Greece by invitation from the Greek Military Junta, he flew from Paris with the Presidential plane of\u00a0 French President Valery Giscard d\u2019Estaign, who was a close personal friend and the political\u00a0 European figure who helped the most in Greece\u2019s accession in 1980 to the European Common Market\u00a0 as a permanent and full member state!!! Another historical event which clearly demonstrates the “not so positive” attitude of\u00a0 Konstantinos G. Karamanlis with regards to the political and expansionist policies of the United States in the Eastern Mediterranean and in the Middle East, was\u00a0 Greece\u2019s short term withdrawal from the military wing of NATO(1974-1980), a “status quo” which was essentially reversed by\u00a0 Andreas Papandreou himself when in 1981 he was elected Prime Minister of Greece. It was that same man who in the past, was proclaiming to the Greek Public, time and time again, that he was “a militant opponent” of the expansionist strategies and ambitions of NATO and of course of the United States.<\/p>\n
We therefore witness that from the 1960s, Konstantinos G. Karamanlis had the vision that Greece ought to make a rapprochement towards and link its economic, political and cultural evolution with those of the developed states of the European Economic Community, while from the creation of PASOK in 1974, as an influential Greek political party in the opposition, as well as the ruling party after 1981, its President, Andreas Papandreou, “tried his best” to distort and undermine Greece\u2019s economic and political relations with the European Community. During the 1970s and prior to the Greek National Elections in 1981, PASOK as a political party in the Greek Parliament had used for its political propaganda “simplistic slogans” such as\u00a0 “E.E.C. and NATO, the same Syndicate!!”, “out of NATO, out of the E.E.C.!!” and “the E.E.C., the lions\u2019 den!!”-“high worded” political slogans which nevertheless greatly impressed the mostly “fragile”(corruptible) general Greek Public who loves being “perked up” by half truths and\u00a0 tough language; that is why even today, many years after the “catastrophic” national policies of Andreas Papandreou which right now are seriously threatening the “national autonomy” of the Greek State, he is still regarded by many Greeks as their “national saviour”!!! We Greeks, should all be really proud of ourselves(ironically) for acting like a “modern society” and a “modern nation”, then and right now!!! Let us finally be serious!!!<\/p>\n
The “ethnocentric” and “radical” political slogans coming out of PASOK\u2019s ideological propaganda, equating NATO\u2019s military expansionist policies with the economic policies of the E.E.C., had two distinct objectives. The first was to create confusion in the political judgement of the ordinary Greek person relative to the real role of the E.E.C.\u00a0 concerning Greece\u2019s economic development, and secondly, to introduce a general climate of “antagonism” and “alienation” with respect to a “common” and “unified” policy by all the member states of the E.E.C. involving economic development and a political strategy aiming at a Federation of European\u00a0 States. After 1981, when Andreas Papandreou was elected Prime Minister of\u00a0 Greece with his political party PASOK, the ideological differences and the political enmities with NATO disappeared “as if by magic”, while on the other hand, the “malaise” and the “inflexibility” in Greece\u2019s relations with the E.E.C. was maintained and even reinforced, even though Andreas Papandreou and his “socialist” government had accepted that the country should remain a permanent and active member state of NATO but also of the European Economic Community.<\/p>\n
The critical “political human link” between Greece and the European Union was\u00a0 Konstantinos G. Karamanlis with his conservative New Democracy political party. Therefore, Andreas Papandreou being an excellent “hocus pocus” politician, by using a variety of political manoeuvres or political “tricks”, he sought to “blemish” the political status and to “dismantle” the political influence of\u00a0 Konstantinos G. Karamanlis in the political affairs and developments of the country. In 1980, after the signing of\u00a0 Greece\u2019s\u00a0 accession as a full member state in the European Union, Konstantinos G. Karamanlis resigned as Prime Minister of Greece and as president of the governing party, knowing full well that his New Democracy party would be defeated by PASOK in the upcoming Parliamentary elections set for 1981, and that consequently, Andreas Papandreou would become the country\u2019s next Prime Minister. The Greek Parliament in 1980, elected Konstantinos G. Karamanlis as President of the Greek Republic, a state position which provided him with important political functions at intervening in government affairs; this based on the Greek Constitution which the Greek parliamentarians had voted for in 1975. Andreas Papandreou as Prime Minister of Greece, was therefore constitutionally obliged to accept and honour any political intervention initiated by the President, giving also the “impression” to the General Greek Public that there was a “consensual” and “friendly” climate within the Greek Parliament between his governing “socialist” political party(PASOK) and the conservative New Democracy Party which represented the main opposition; all this “for the sake” of\u00a0 Greece\u2019s political stability and progress!!! In March of 1985, while there was a “consensus” and an “unofficial agreement” by the two major political parties in Parliament, PASOK\u00a0 and\u00a0 the New Democracy Party, that Konstantinos G. Karamanlis\u00a0 would once again be chosen as President of the Greek Republic in the Presidential Elections, Andreas Papandreou “at the last moment” introduced as his party\u2019s candidate a Supreme Court Judge, Christos Sartzetakis, who had played an important judicial role in applying true justice under the rule of\u00a0 the colonels in Greece\u2019s Military Junta(1967-1974). At the same time, Andreas Papandreou announced that he would try to revise\u00a0 the Greek Constitution of 1975, through the support of other political parties in the Greek Parliament belonging to the centre-left\u00a0 “ideologically”. Therefore, with two “tactical” and “underhanded” political moves, Andreas Papandreou, the “hocus pocus” politician par excellence, succeeded\u00a0 in taking away the Presidency from Konstantinos G. Karamanlis, while at the same time, in 1986, the Greek Parliament voted for a revised Greek Constitution which disallowed all the state functions allowing the\u00a0 President to exercise an “active role” in the political affairs of the country, thus making the Prime Minister and naturally Andreas Papandreou, the “absolute boss” in the Greek Government and in the Greek State!!!<\/p>\n
As Greece had accepted to function as a permanent member of the E.E.C., it could not only enjoy\u00a0 the economic services and opportunities provided by the European Community, it also had to acquiesce and abide by the regulations and set programmes which directly involved the economic and political courses chosen collectively by the member states of the Community. Andreas Papandreou\u00a0 and his “socialist” government was\u00a0 “more than willing” to utilize and take advantage of the benefits and the economic facilities furnished by the E.E.C. , but within the context of real cooperation and consensus involving a common economic and political strategy which in the near future would lead to a Federation of\u00a0 European States, Andreas Papandreou who was a very capable “hocus pocus” politician, did all\u00a0 he could to obstruct this “constructive” historical evolution, thus servicing the economic and political interests of his American “mentors”!!! For example, the government of\u00a0 Andreas Papandreou did not follow the common policy of the Community concerning economic development, especially in the agricultural sector, which was\u00a0 Greece\u2019s strongest trade card. There was an influx of billions of euros in financial aid from the E.E.C. to develop and modernize\u00a0 Greece\u2019s agricultural economy; money which to a large extent was never invested in the economy but was “misspent” or “gobbled up” by government affiliated agrarian cooperatives, local civil administrations, civil servants, secretaries of ministries, politicians, ministers, vice-ministers, and naturally by many other official Greek “scoundrels”!!! The result was that in the 1980s, when\u00a0 Andreas Papandreou was\u00a0 Prime Minister of\u00a0 Greece with\u00a0 his\u00a0 “socialist” government of\u00a0 PASOK, Greece experienced a downward economic trend\u00a0 compared to the average indicator of economic development of the other member states of the European Community. I would like here to mention one more historical fact concerning the “deliberate” and “methodical” antagonistic attitude of Andreas Papandreou\u00a0 towards the\u00a0 Executive Administration of the European Community involving a personal demand for more financial aid for Greece, focusing on the country\u2019s agricultural sector. In January 1985, Andreas Papandreou directly threatened Jacques Deslors, the President of the European\u00a0 Council, that\u00a0 Greece would veto\u00a0 the accession of\u00a0 Spain and\u00a0 Portugal as full member states in the European Union, if it did not receive a long term financial aid package. Finally, in March 1985, the European Council initiated the Integrated Mediterranean Programs(IMPs), providing Greece with billions of\u00a0 euros of financial aid, lasting until 1993!!! Was this cooperation or plain blackmail??<\/p>\n
“If you can\u2019t shed a tear,\u00a0you haven\u2019t sensed the meaning\u00a0of life!!!”
\n(October\u00a0 2012)<\/p>\n
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Greece recycled!!!<\/p>\n
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