What if, by some twist of fate, the greek Civil War never happens and the DSE is never formed to launch revolts? Would Greece be the in the financial state it's in today?
WI: No Greek Civil War?
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Err... the communist partisans were a major part of the antinazi underground. You are asking for a massively different wwii ingreece, i think. The communists didnt suddenly appeat after the end of the war, which your question seems to suggest...
After WWII the Marshal Plan was devised and activated in order to rebuilt the countries that suffered destruction during WWII(Iron Curtain excluded).
Greece's allocation was not spend for rebuilding the country,but for feeding
the war against the communist insurrection(EAM-ELAS) that was a very destructive conflict that cost in Greece an additional 400000 casualties and
great destruction in the infrastracture of their country.
Greece's financial state today is not attributed to that war directly although without the conflict of 1944-49 Greece would have had a better infrastructure and its industrial base would have been rebuilt to the extent
that its productivity and financial resilience would have withstood the recent crisis that spread all over Europe and would have weathered it in a very short time,much better than Eyre Spain or Portugal,and would have fought successfuly many destructive EU decisions from a better standing.
The communists no,but the war gave them a chance they were looking for as they did in all southern Europe.Their active plans were put into effect in around the end of 1942.
Paradoxally, perhaps with a more distant POD, DEMOCRATIC communists-socialists could help? But no idea of how to do this 'Keralatisation' this.
Would it? I was under the impression that one of the main causes of Greece's financial crisis was that post-1974 the government kept spending increasing amounts of public money without being willing to levy the taxes required to cover it, leading to it borrowing large amounts and then later cooking the books to join the Euro and keep things looking good. Even if the civil war is avoided and aid spent more wisely to build a firm foundation of infrastructure and industry, without a change of culture wouldn't that just mean they spend larger amounts of money and then racking up the public debt?