You may know the history of OZ but not of Greece. What rubbish you post!
...Greeks fought Nazis and invading Commies and homegrown ones during WWII, with very little help - after the war Grece was part of the British sphere until 47 (unfortunately given that the Brits did much to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Greeks during the war) and did little to help in the reunification of Cyprus to Greece...waging war against heroic Greek Cypriot patriots for years.
There are few Greeks that do not hold an affection for America - that idealized America as the land of the free—which is have NOT been for a while now.
The rest of your post is fantasy.
I know my history well enogh.
Some Greeks fought some other (Red) Greeks, 1945-1948 (and earlier)
WWII Greeks got a great deal of help from Britain - everything in the power of Britain at the time, which wasn’t enough. The Greek intervention cost Britain over 50,000 men and dozens of warships. And Greece was already at war with Italy before the British agreed to help.
Cyprus to Greece ? And the US had what to do with it ?
Americans helped Greece -
- Saving and feeding millions of refugees in the 1920’s
- Providing a second home for millions of Greeks, so much so that remittances were a major source of national income for decades.
- Saving Greece from the Reds.
My experience regarding “affection for America” is precisely the opposite, and I understand it is generally the same for any US serviceman who has been stationed in Greece, diplomats and other expats.
See above for comments on Papandreu. There were and are a heck of a lot of Papandreus.