The documentary “At a Thousandth” – from the first of six episodes – literally makes one shudder at the Tsipras government and what the country has escaped.
The image of the ministers who took over the fate of the country, the things they say about the lies they told the people in order to get SYRIZA to take power with the help of ANEL‘s Panos Kammenos as well as the recording of events that have seen the light of day for the first time causes literal chills.
Even the title of the six-episode documentary, “At a Thousandth”, may turn out to be somewhat… loose in the end, since essentiallyeverything indicates that we got away with it at “and five”, maybe more, given what happened to the country and its citizens in the period 2015-2019, with the third and unnecessary – before 2015- amnesty, the additional 100 billion. euros that it cost Greeks, the closed banks and capital controls, the 29 new taxes that destroyed the middle class, the infamous Katrougalos law that should normally be called the Tsipras law since he was the prime minister, and much much more.
The laxity of Giorgos Stathakis, the revelations of Panagiotis Lafazanis,the reports of the German ambassador and of the secret meeting he had with Alexis Tsipras before he became prime minister – when he was shouting “go back, Madame Merkel” – and when he declared that the drums would ring and the markets would dance – evoke memories, but also show the true face of those who ruled.
Alexis Tsipras, as a rebel without a cause who was stirring up the… crowds, behind the stage sending messages to the German Chancellor that there would be no dramatic changes if he was elected, essentially not listening to what he was saying in public, but the people were listening.
The cynical reports from former ministers of the re-emerging central political scene… messiah are along the lines of “we were saying some… nonsense to pass the time”. Nonsense about tearing up the memoranda with a law and an article, not meeting obligations to creditors and not recognizing Greek debt.
If anyone has the opportunity and can watch this first episode, they will see that the Thessaloniki programme was the biggest political fraud against a people whose instrumentalisation they attempted to instrumentalise by stepping on the emotion and indignation they themselves cultivated.
It is logical that Alexis Tsipras does not want to speak. What is there to say? What he wrote in his book? His own truth? When there are statements and testimonies of his former ministers that leave him exposed and other protagonists inside and outside Greece from that time then things are not easy.
On the contrary, he would once again put himself in the right place of a frame that he wants to change by restoring his revolutionary profile and an outdated, like sour grapes, revolutionary profile.
We didn’t have a saint. We had saints…
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