Bananiot wrote:Were you around in 1974 Hermes? The number of GC's brandishing guns and the number of GC's that came forward to congratulate the coupists and swear allegiance to the "new order" suggest your 99.9% makes mockery of the real situation on the ground. The coup was carried out by EOKA B' which enjoyed popular support in the grass roots but what worries me most is that those that want to narrow down the coupists to a merely insignificant percentage of the population, are probably krypto-supporters of the most reactionary forces in Cyprus.
The fascist bitch, let me spell it out for you Hermes, is in heat once again, and poor Cyprus has at its helm an incompetent President who has lost credibility and popular support and the black shirts that dominate the indignant are only there to remind us of our worse past. Like reliving a nightmare. Sane people are genuinely worried, not overglowing with a vindication aura.
This is nonsense bordering on fantasy. EOKA B was not a "grassroots" organisation. It was made up of bully boys and thugs and had no popular support. It was an illegal group financed by the CIA whose aim was to depose Makarios. The majority of Greek Cypriots were against both the coup and EOKA-B and supported Makarios who had been democratically elected.
To suggest that a significant number of Greek Cypriots were supporters of Grivas and the tactics of EOKA B is just delusional and worse, has the ulterior motive of justifying Turkey's actions, which is largely your forte.
You go one step further which is bordering on the ridiculous: you claim the current protesters in Cyprus are heirs to the thugs of EOKA B and Sampson, which is so bizarre that only Christofias in his desperation to cling on to power has made such an equivalence.
Christofias is not the victim of a fascist conspiracy but of his own negligence and incompetence. Protesters are calling for elections and the restoration of competence and integrity to government. Not for union with Greece or the setting up of a fascist dictatorship. That bizarre scenario exists only in your head.