From Viannos to Keratsini

It's been four years since the murder of rapper Pavlos Fyssas in Keratsini. The Golden Dawn trial, which has been marred by vulgar attacks inside the courtroom against Fyssas's mother by defendants and their followers, has gone on for two-and-a-half years now.

Meanwhile, on Sunday, President Prokopis Pavlopoulos visited a memorial on Crete to the 401 victims of the Viannos massacres carried out by Nazi troops on the island on September 14 to 16, 1943.

Nevertheless, the latest polls continue to show that 7 percent of Greek support the neo-Nazi party. Are these things linked? Clearly they are. However, spiritually, emotionally and morally, their connection is not just impossible - it's unthinkable.

How is it that we've gone from having thousands of Greeks being murdered by the Nazi occupiers during World War II to having thousands of Greeks today, with...

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