Nicos Dimou on Greek nationalism - 1994

Nicos Dimou is one of Greeces most prominent authors and commentators, best know perhaps for his book The Misfortune of Being Greek which was added to the Index of Anti-Hellenic Publications.

Scene from the documentary "Nationalism Threatens Democracy - Greece" from 1994

"Since my childhood, Greece's history has seemed like a (cheap) Western movie, one in which the Greeks were, always and unequivocally, the Good Guys. The Bad Guys were always changing. There was "the threat from the North," then from the East, then it was the North again, and back to the East. When I was a child, the word "Bulgarian" was a curse, more so than "Turk." It was forbidden for Greeks in northern Greece to design themselves as "Macedonian." "Albanian" then had a neutral tone; today it's become a threat."

Quote from:
www.ndimou.gr/

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