{"id":2693,"date":"2026-04-27T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2693"},"modified":"2026-04-27T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:48:00","slug":"chernobyl-dangerous-and-unscrupulous-ideologues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=2693","title":{"rendered":"Chernobyl: dangerous and unscrupulous ideologues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Chernobyl <\/b>(the) 1. too much <b>destruction <\/b>&#8220;nobody likes losing a derby, but it&#8217;s not exactly Chernobyl&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>2. fatal persistence due to ideological blindness &#8220;<b>Chernobyl made them eat contaminated food<\/b> which of course had much less effect than the effects of the spiritual<b> contamination to which they had been exposed from a young age&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h3>Turning ideology into religion<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n<p>Yesterday was the anniversary of <b>accident <\/b>at Chernobyl that claimed the lives of an unknown number of people and confirmed how dangerous and ruthless ideologues can be when they turn ideology into religion (either as believers or as high priests exploiting believers). <\/p>\n<p>As much as the front page of the &#8220;Rizospastis&#8221; headlined &#8220;Anti-Soviet &#8216;cloud'&#8221; and subtitled &#8220;<b>White House coordinates hysterical campaign. The USSR categorically states that there is no danger&#8221;<\/b>. In fact, in this particular headline the biggest disaster in Europe since WWII was described as an &#8220;accident&#8221;. Of course, when we talk about the KKE, we are talking about the party that tries not just to embellish communism, but to impose it (and even at the end of WWII with weapons) so, compared to the rest of its activities, embellishing a radioactive cloud is a misdemeanour. <\/p>\n<h3>\n<h3>\n<p><b>The arrest of the labour inspector who made the mistake of dealing with a complaint against Nikos Konstantopoulos&#8217; daughter I think gives the best answer<\/b> to why people like Konstantopoulou act <b>as they do<\/b> and manage to create so many problems: because the state itself enables them to do so. <\/p>\n<h3>Trump and the new &#8220;attempt&#8221; <\/h3>\n<p>If you&#8217;re wondering how the man who is blowing up the global economy will use the new &#8220;attempt&#8221; against him, wonder no more: absorbed as ever in himself, Putin&#8217;s friend used the &#8220;episode&#8221; to say how much he needs the new banquet hall he&#8217;s dreaming of. <\/p>\n<h3>As a squat <\/h3>\n<p>I don&#8217;t understand why it&#8217;s a topic of discussion that the ever-convenient PASOK mayor of Athens said that &#8220;<b>Athens cannot be run like a huge hotel<\/b>&#8220;. I thought by now everyone would have figured out that Comrade Dukas dreams of a capital city that functions like a huge squat <\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chernobyl (the) 1. a very big disaster. &#8220;Nobody likes to lose a derby, but it&#8217;s not exactly Chernobyl&#8221; 2. fatal persistence that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}