[longtermmemmory]

I have been there three times last year. It is not anti-US the way this article portrays. You also have to remember there are more Greeks in the USA of Greek decent than Greeks in Greece. Most US Greeks have some form of connection with the old country, whether it is family or property.


There is no point in stopping the fun people are going to have over this, so insult away.

AS for those who think the Greeks want the USSR please rethink that. Between 1945 and 1951 Greece was ripped by a civil war where the communists tried to take over the country by force of arms. The commies killed villages where the population refused to submit to communist partisans. Greece as a nation is anti-comunist by blood not just words.

Is there a commie party, yes. Just as the USA has a crackpot green party. In fact the commie member in their parlement is from the region the partisans killed off villagers.

The survey should have also included how much Greeks view the EU as a threat to they national sovereignty.

Thankfully the conservatives are slated to increase their majority in the upcomming elections on March 7, 2004. BTW the conservative candidate for Prime Minister of Greece was born in the USA. (he is expected to win and give the conservatives the prime ministership and the parlament. Now the conservatives control parlament but not the primeministership.)

[Clemenza]

Most US Greeks have some form of connection with the old country, whether it is family or property.

Correct. My landlord still spends about 6 months out of the year at his home in Greece. Alot of the old Greeks around here who came in the 1960s have been selling their property (lots of Greeks in real estate around here) or passing it on to their children, returning to Greece to retire.

I greatly appreciate the Fig trees my landlord grows in front of our building.