ROMANITY, OR BARBARITY?

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Richard Blake

Note: I don’t know where this came from originally. It was sent to Mr Blake by one of his fans. But its tries to put the difficult relations between the Greeks and West Europeans in a general context. There is some truth in the claim that the modern Greeks have only themselves to blame for what is happening to them. They lied to get into the Euro. The broke all its rules. They then elected a government of thugs that is still trying to blackmail more subsidies out of the Germans.

At the same time, there does seem to be a fundamental difference between the Modern Greeks and us, the descendants of the German and Slavic invaders of the Roman Empire. They remain foreign to us in ways that even post-Soviet countries like the Czech and Slovak Republics are not. Indeed, go to Prague or Bratislava, and you…

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