Fifty years, where, one could reasonably argue, it hides within itself all our national pathologies,with the ever creeping divisive tendencies at the top, who always want to divide the Greeks into patriots and traitors, depending on their political positions and choices!
And the worst of all is that no one heeded the painful warnings of History, which lead to the universally accepted axiom that division leads to destruction!
Its political division 1965 led to military dictatorship, the political and ecclesiastical division of Cypriot Hellenism led to the mutilation of the centuries-old Greek Cyprus, the carnage of party division created the memory mill "green and blue cafes", and in recent years divided the Greeks into, accusing each other of being traitors, memoranda and anti-memoranda….
A truly wasted fifty years, whose errors and multiple contradictions led the Motherland to moral and financial bankruptcy, threw the Greeks into a vortex of frustration and fear, they clipped the wings of our children and killed their hopes!
It is called, and so it should be, that the deepest darkness is observed just before dawn…
And it does not take much effort to distinguish any Greek of good will that through the deepest darkness, which weighs on our soul and life today, the dawn of a new day begins to dawn…
does not turn him to the crucial and essentials of human life, two rays pierced the dark clouds, which for years now cover the sky of Greece!
The first concerns the return to everyday life, political and television, vocabulary of words such as Nation and Homeland, of words, which had been erased even from school books, which were considered outdated, obstacles to the consolidation of peace and roadblocks in the train of advancing globalization….
Little by little, and after we reached the edge of the cliff, we seem to find that the Homeland “it is, that saves us, and only if her boat fits well, we make friends and we are happy", as he found out centuries ago Sophocles in "Antigone"!
We're late,maybe, but we imitated Stalin in this,the leader of the then fanatically internationalist Soviet Union, who realized that the onslaught of mighty Hitler's Germany against his country could not be stopped by ideological fanfare, but only by appealing to the patriotic spirit of the Russians.
A second glimmer of hope is offered by the image of political leaders sitting around the same table, to discuss the great dangers of the Fatherland and, at last, to agree on something!
Why,lies are bad: no politician is a prostitute or a traitor!
Often, Nevertheless, the finding of Pericles is tragically updated "Perhaps I am afraid of our own sins or those of those against the intellect", more,that is, I fear our own faults, despite the plans of our enemies!
That one, which is imposed by things and needs, before we "mourn on the rivers of Babylon" is for the ill-conceived "party interest" to recede, in front of the national, the interest of the "Mother-Country", as was heard with pleasant surprise from the lips of the current Minister, on the day of his inauguration!
An expression, which recalled the etymological specificity of the word "FATHERLAND". While being produced, that is, from the masculine word "father", pronounced in the feminine gender, precisely to state that each Homeland is both father and mother for each person, where land!
At the "and five" of a new national catastrophe, we must make an invitation for national and religious self-awareness, according to the prophetic proposal of the unforgettable Archbishop Christodoulos!
"Reverse Full Speed" in the great and timeless values , who supported our Nation in its centuries-long historical course and armed it with courage, faith, determination and optimism, "Back at full speed" to regain our national and religious self-awareness!
And let's "let's leave the past to God's mercy, the present in his love and the future in his providence",according to the wonderful words of Abba Hesychios.
† THE SYROUS DOROTHEOS II
("DEMOKRATIA" newspaper, Saturday, 25 July 2015)