Kyriakos Mitsotakis to the Parliamentary Group of New Democracy: “We are united as one fist and we move forward as one fist. We can win a third consecutive election.”
Through historical analogies, the belief is highlighted that corruption, partisanship, manipulation of institutions and social division are not temporary phenomena but timeless characteristics of Greek political reality.
Such words of provocation, arrogance and hubris can only be uttered by a prime minister in a country like Greece, where, from the very first moment of its governance as a newly established state by the Tsar’s appointed Foreign Minister, Ivan Kapodistrias, it became evident what its fate among the other European states would eventually be.
The Russians’ puppet, the governor of tiny Greece, from the very beginning did not hesitate to show the manner and purpose by which he intended to rule, just as he ruled during the few years he remained in power before being executed by members of the heroic Mavromichalis family — a family that had shed much blood in the struggle for the liberation of the “fatherland” and possessed a centuries-old tradition, dating back to early Byzantine antiquity, regarding the meaning of freedom for the unconquered little people of the ancient land of Mani. The genuine “Greek” descendants of the Eleftherolakones, who did not intermingle with Slavic tribes.
Specifically:
he established a “state of his own people,” unleashing every kind of persecution against his political opponents, especially those who had actually participated in the liberation struggles, while he himself had been absent from them, and he condemned the greater part of the then small Greek society to severe poverty, contempt and marginalization.
he created a judicial body, state suppressive mechanisms and administrative institutions entirely controlled by the tyrant himself. A state of praetorian guards and torturer-gendarmes, but also one supported by informers and followers — as in all eras, the same breed with deep pockets and the greed of locusts.
he organized a corps of “elite” party operatives in both the capital and the provinces with, among other duties, responsibilities equivalent to those of an intelligence agency: surveillance, denunciations, informing, with detailed reports sent to Nafplio, the governor’s seat. A modern state service for its time under the supervision of another Russian-oriented official, Panagiotis Anagnostopoulos, originating from Andritsaina and member of the Filiki Etaireia.
At the same time, these same reckless usurpers of the small state systematically cultivated fanaticism and division — the beginning of the “divide and rule” doctrine — separating Greeks into “national-minded patriots” and “pollutants,” into enemies of the state and brigands. In this way, they cleverly recycled the previous civil conflicts in order to impose and implement their plans more easily, without either shame or concern for forging the national unity demanded by those critical times in a country that had only just gained its independence.
After Kapodistrias, looking through the light of unmanipulated History, we observe that most, if not all, subsequent kings and rulers of the now larger Greece, up to the present day, copied word for word the same methods as the country’s first governor, after first instructing the scribblers of fictionalized history to place the tyrant Kapodistrias beside heroic fighters such as Nikitas Stamatelopoulos, Georgios Karaiskakis, Andreas Miaoulis and Petrobey Mavromichalis. What hubris!
The governments of the Right, a few years after the end of the Great War, established the methods of Kapodistrias as the exclusive model for governing the country. A state belonging to Konstantinos Karamanlis’ ERE party under Anglo-American domination, with a para-state of murderers, persecutions of dissidents through death sentences, exiles, imprisonments, torture and certificates of political loyalty.
The same political faction, now as New Democracy, followed to the letter the tried-and-tested recipe of Kapodistrias, whom the contemporary Mitsotakis Right honors greatly. It even propagandizes his so-called “national work” through garbage productions made by quisling filmmakers in the field of Art, financed by Zakharova’s rubles — Putin’s spokeswoman considers Kapodistrias Russian and correctly calls him Ivan — as well as by the dollars of a small hot-headed group within the Greek diaspora.
But this time, the party of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, as the government of the “blue locusts,” representing the 20% of supporters who vote for it and enrich themselves shamelessly, has surpassed even its mentor-guru, the first governor of Greece. At the same time, the remaining 80% of the Greek people live in a state of bankruptcy shock amid a second, real collapse, with an economy beautified by its perpetrators through the propaganda of the Mass Stupefaction Media, the lenders and the numerical alchemy of Market Economics. Yet despite the prosperity of the numbers, the country shares with Bulgaria the last position in the European Union in living standards and purchasing power.
The Greece of Kyriakos Mitsotakis has today become, without the slightest exaggeration, an endless circus both laughable and tragic. An unfathomable cesspool of corruption, with EU prosecutors pursuing ministers and members of parliament of the government as guilty of provocative economic and institutional scandals, as well as moral perpetrators of mass killings. Yet these people are not only acquitted by the appointed representatives of the institution of justice, but are transformed from perpetrators into victims and from defendants into accusers. At this point there is no institution in the country that is not being degraded daily, stripped of its institutional prestige and dignity in a state that, since its foundation, has never even minimally functioned as a true “state governed by law.”
And what does the “foreigner” think? Especially the Scandinavian citizen, who would consider it natural and self-evident for such a government in his own country to have resigned immediately and for its members to be in prison — what must he think of the Greece devastated by Mitsotakis?
Let the guilty answer. The responsible ones. And these are not only Mitsotakis and the criminal group governing the country. Nor only the Right-wing voters who barter away their vote. Equal responsibility, if not greater, belongs to those who claim to belong to the anti-Right camp. Leaders and followers alike. Androulakis, Tsipras, Famellos, Zoe, Varoufakis. All the systemic politicians and voters of the country who knowingly “pour water into Kyriakos’ mill.”
And thus the son of Konstantinos Mitsotakis “rubs his hands with satisfaction” having such partisan opponents. He knows very well that it is on their backs that the heir of the Dynasty has governed for nearly seven years. He also understands — because Kyriakos is anything but foolish — that if his opponents were to place the country above their uncontrolled ambitions, the very next day he would not merely “leave overnight,” but would hide for life in some tax haven of the world, wherever the bribes and bonuses from every kind of “Rafale and frigate” finally come to rest.
“Yes, damn it, we steal! And rightly so! In order to protect the country from the damn Turks. And to throw a few crumbs to the real and genuine Greeks who were raised and swear by the triptych: ‘fatherland, religion, family, damn it.’”