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The Man Who Defied Europe - Yanis Varoufakis

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Case of My Father in the Concentration Camp

My father was a student 1946 to 1996. He came to Greece later because he had a very cushy job at the bank in Cairo and decided to leave that to go to university and study chemistry. When he arrived, the student's union was completely divided between left and right. So they both sides, the right and the left went to him and said, look, would you like to be the president? We would support you. So he said yes, he did it. And then a few months later, as the civil war was building up again, leading to a carnage a few monthslater, the government and the university of thought it is doubled tuition fees. My father thinking that this

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