I have always admired GR for his honesty and integrity. He is educated, smart and an all-round nice guy. I am convinced he would make an excellent politician and I can see him go all the way to the top. Go on GR, get involved.
GR Wrote;
On behalf of true Cypriots some things need to be told...
What Greece was doing to Cyprus (starting intensely from the 1920s and right up to 1974) was a prolonged, systematic, and very thorough CLEANSING of the Cypriot culture, origin, and heritage.
It was a complete and unwavering effort to annihilate all things Cypriot and to replace the very nature of Cypriots with an invented identity which ultimately led to the catastrophic events we know today.
Greece used every dirty trick in the racist book (much of which was borrowed from Nazi Germany’s bible) to achieve their devious goal of ethnic catharsis on Cyprus including the constant control and abuse of education (schools) and religion (Church) to pump out their incessant propaganda.
The result of their propaganda was many schooled generations of Cypriots brainwashed into believing utter absurdities such as:
1. Cyprus was some kind of Greek territory led astray that needed to be reunited back into the Greek fold.
2. Cypriots originated from ancient Greeks therefore Cypriots never existed.
Those who resisted the obligatory “Hellenization” were branded “communist”, “atheist”, and/or “pro colonialist”, and punished severely by the evil McCarthyist movement. Families were cut off from the community and men were tortured and/or murdered for failing to fall in line with Hellenism.
By the late 60s and early 70s the doctrine had spread like wildfire and the now majority brainwashed followers were in a frenzy and one could sense in the air that serious trouble was brewing on the island.
I myself am a victim of this horrible Greek evil when as a child of around 7-8 I was slapped almost senseless by my teacher for failing to draw/paint the Greek flag on a small rectangular piece of paper and straw I was handed, and opted to paint the Cypriot one which I copied/traced from a print on my pencil case.
I knew there and then that this “Hellenism” was nothing but my enemy aiming to either forever modify or destroy me. I would’ve never imagined at the time that my destruction was actually imminent for hardly two years had gone by when the Greek coup broke out leading to our refugeehood… forever banished from our homeland.