A lot has been said about how incompetent the Greeks have been with handling their financial affairs. But many have forgotten that Greece was virtually destroyed by the Italian and German invasions during the second world war and the country was then thrown into a more destructive civil war immediately after that when Stalin and Churchill fought over which sphere of influence Greece should come under. As a result Greece had to face another devastating conflict which lasted an additional 5 years.
The West insisted that Greece should not go communist and as a result the civil war was followed by a succession of military coups instigated by the CIA after that. The country had very little chance to develop and there was no marshal plan to support any re building programme.
The Greek press have been covering this issue widely lately correctly stating that the amount that was given to Germany after the last war was 20 times higher then the loans given today by the EU. I am aware that the Greeks must do better but to simply blame the country without looking at the problem within a historical context is not right and it is ignorant. The Greek people have been the victims of manipulation by foreign powers since independence in 1827. So if anyone wants to know why what is happening today looks so bad they had better go and read their history, a history of interference and manipulation by the super powers.
There is also a lot of bad press and a popular story is to do with tax evasion by Greeks, I think there is some truth in this but if anyone wants to look at the history of tax evasion they should not go further away than the shores of Britain where millioners who use the country to create wealth conveniently live in tax free countries to avoid paying tax? Now who is taking the piss?
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