Pangalos’s spies
I don’t know if there were any informers in Theodoros Pangalos’s family; in ours, there weren’t any. But how irresponsible can PASOK’s aspirant leader – and a former foreign secretary, at that – be when he considers it «reasonable» that a Greek citizen give information to foreign secret services? Pangalos, an unsuccessful mayoral candidate and failed rescuer of separatist guerrillas, is trying to amuse himself, but he does not make us laugh. Some people should recall that in the 1970s… the same person frequented the hangouts of political youth abroad, castigating all communists as Russian spies. Today, Greece’s Communist Party plays ignorant. It adopts Pangalos’s logic, disregarding the fact that its members were once persecuted on similar charges. There is clearly some point of contact between these two sides. For some of Communist party leader Aleka Papariga’s predecessors did not hesitate to inform against their like-minded comrades of the communist regimes merely because they claimed the right to think differently… Today some may denounce what took place in communist states as banal. These days you can take a walk at Checkpoint Charlie and stare at the tourists who pose for photographs next to sacks filled with the sand of the Cold War. Doing this, however, does not erase history…
