Germany Rejects Greece’s Demand for War Reparations

**Renekton** · 10-23-2019, 05:48 PM

We don't own nothing the Greeks... Greeks own us.....

**The Lawspeaker** · 10-23-2019, 05:50 PM

Originally Posted by Hahns

We don't own nothing the Greeks... Greeks own us.....

Nobody owes anyone anything. And you're not a real German, Turkboy. Show your true colours already.

**Óttar** · 10-23-2019, 05:54 PM

Not gonna lie, it would be funny if Greece had to sell some of their islands like Germany had suggested. I'd like to kick it on a Greek island while speaking German and looking at German architecture:

**Voskos** · 10-23-2019, 05:58 PM

Germany is a caricature of a country imo.

**The Lawspeaker** · 10-23-2019, 05:59 PM

(Personally, I quite like the idea of Greece taking back Western Anatolia, Constantinople and the Pontic Coast. If Greece would develop those areas with German help, then everybody goes away happy. Except the Turks, of course, but who cares. It's not their land, anyway).

**~~Epirus DNA~~** · 10-23-2019, 06:15 PM

Originally Posted by Hahns

We don't own nothing the Greeks... Greeks own us.....

You are correct! Greeks "OWN" the Germans HAHAHAHA

**Zeno** · 10-23-2019, 06:18 PM

Originally Posted by The Lawspeaker

In other words: Greece suffered from a lack of competitiveness (the economical structure was based around either small scale industry or about massive cartels), lack of real innovation, dumb corruption and joining a group of countries whose economic regime they could not hope to match (EEC/EU).

All since 1981...
Thank the (((Socialists))) (PASOK) for today. Before that, we were doing more than just perfect.

**The Lawspeaker** · 10-23-2019, 06:19 PM

Originally Posted by Zeno of Citium

All since 1981...
Thank the (((Socialists))) (PASOK) for today. Before that, we were doing more than just perfect.

Is there any place on the planet where socialists didn't fuck things up ?

**Óttar** · 10-23-2019, 06:23 PM

Originally Posted by The Lawspeaker

(Personally, I quite like the idea of Greece taking back Western Anatolia, Constantinople and the Pontic Coast. If Greece would develop those areas with German help, then everybody goes away happy. Except the Turks, of course, but who cares. It's not their land, anyway).

Smyrna, Constantinople, Sinope, and several Anatolian cities should be Greek. I liked the Allied plan of dividing Anatolia between the Euro powers, but people in Hell want ice water.

**~~Petros Houhoulis~~** · 10-23-2019, 06:27 PM

Originally Posted by The Lawspeaker

I have to admit, I don't get it: 10 years after the war, West Germany was our main trading partner and our money was being invested in heavy industry, railways, roads, the first Delta Works, the mines of Limburg, petrochemical works, shipbuilding, the ports of Amsterdam and Rotterdam. In homes and businesses. By 1955, productivity reached 1935 levels and by 1963, wage and price controls could be removed (and the government, underhandedly, brought in migrants to depress wages again). Why is it that Southern Europe didn't do the same thing (minus the migrants) ? They also got American loans and they were only a stones throw away from the Suez Canal and the upcoming markets of Asia. This is 1962 - everything that we still rely on was already there:

Greece was fighting a civil war until 1949 which caused even more destruction than WWII, while Spain and Portugal were still ruled by military governments and stuck into their colonies until very late in the game.