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However, his statement is interesting for a other reason: because it departs from "the fairy tale" that two postwar generations grew up with: "the Germans are not to blame, we are to blame the Nazi villains".
It is a Fairy tale, because the German citizens elected the Nazi's- the Nazis did not take power with a coup d'etat. They got many millions of votes. The Nazi were not the only Germans that tried to conquer the world. During the First World War the Germans had a national vision of a big hegemonic Germany. This is precisely what is happening today disguised in a new form and with different "armament", and in different content and expression ... Because very simply this is the content of national achievement of Germany since its first unification in 1871 when it was first born as a united state ... Watch out world, our leaders were as oblivious then as they are now. They let the Germans concur Czechoslovakia in order to they appease Germany and we had a world war. World watch out for the Germans they still secretly think they are superior and they will try it again.
I expect a person of his caliber to know the following facts presented in EU documents and drafted by European analysts, and it is difficult in that respect not to accuse him of trying to manipulate impressions.
According to the EU document: "Certain Member States within the EU have become heavily indebted in recent years. But the pattern is not even. In terms of absolute volumes of debt, France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom are the most significant. But relative to the sizes of economies, Cyprus, Denmark, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom averaged debt to GDP of some 84 per cent in December 2009 whilst Greece, Italy, Slovakia, and Slovenia averaged just 33 per cent."
The original document is publicly available for cross reference at:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/document/activities/cont/201103/20110324ATT16330/20110324ATT16330EN.pdf
I don't deny that Greece is in debt, a massive one too, but I DENY that this is caused by the ordinary people of my country. Such bad press, is only an attempt to justify a badly conceived, self-serving and outright immoral European policy.
The problem is not the nature, character or attitude of ordinary people. It is a massively corrupted Greek political system, the very same the Mr Schaeuble and the rest of EU politicians maintain in power to serve their very own purposes, denying us directly and explicitly the right to an election.
And it is YOUR responsibility as well, not to mislead your audience about facts only aiming to create a frame of mind that justifies the misfortunes of ordinary people as a rightful punishment for their behavior. Misreporting is equally treacherous as imposing the policy itself. Enough is enough!
We will be watching.
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Dr Tally Hatzakis