'Podemos
have now suffered great damage due to us. All, however, are linked:
one of the reasons for which the official Europe appeared so
determined to crush us, was the rise of Podemos. The Social Democrats
in Germany and elsewhere were afraid our success. If we had succeeded
to restart the Greek economy, they would end up like PASOK in Greece,
ie 4%. Therefore, they had to crush us, which they did,'
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“The
referendum was not held for us to win but to lose, find an excuse in
the face of an inevitable subjugation”. With this phrase, the
former Greek Finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis, describes in the
French magazine L 'Observateur what happened the night of the
Greek referendum, when the “NO” prevailed with 62%.
“Truly,
I'm thinking of it. On the night of the referendum, when this grand
62% for the 'NO' came out, I was in seventh heaven. But this was not
the result that Tsipras wanted. It was written clearly on his face.
Well, that night he said: it is time for us to surrender. And I
answered: not for me. (...) He thought that Greece could be destroyed
if we continued. I did not share this view. And I left.”
Referring to
the role of Podemos in Spain, Varoufakis said: “We did great
harm to them. Podemos have now suffered great damage due to us. All,
however, are linked: one of the reasons for which the official Europe
appeared so determined to crush us, was the rise of Podemos. The
Social Democrats in Germany and elsewhere were afraid our success. If
we had succeeded to restart the Greek economy, they would end up like
PASOK in Greece, ie 4%. Therefore, they had to crush us, which they
did,” he said among other
things.
Concerning
eurozone, Varoufakis said characteristically:
“To
believe someone that there is a German psychological 'type', is the
beginning of racism. I do not agree entirely with Mélenchon, as I
told to him in the celebration of Humanité. This is mainly a weak
thought, because eurozone was created, not by a German government,
but by a coalition of French, German and Greek elites, which are
equally responsible for the catastrophic architecture.”
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