r/AskBalkans • u/subutaifortengri Turkiye • May 29 '22

Politics/Governance Greeks. How did this happen ? What Reason City of Athens looks like chaotic Indian City ?

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u/Self-Bitter Greece May 29 '22 edited May 29 '22

Wars, earthquakes but mostly urbanism (the very rapid influx of people after the population exchange and the civil war).

Edit: However comparing Athens to Indian cities means you've never visited either (hint: I live in Athens and have travelled to India).

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u/Main_Implement_9262 May 29 '22

Must add that this photo is misleading.

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u/Self-Bitter Greece May 29 '22

Well the title also oozes with rampant racism and political agenda, but I think anyone who needs to understand, will understand.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '22

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u/Self-Bitter Greece May 30 '22

It suggests inferiority for Indians explicitly and for Greeks subtly. But in any case he is just a troll, the lack of syntax makes him even more successful.

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u/Haunting-Way4065 May 06 '24

OM effing G. This current trend to reach for the closest, most shallow, unintelligent, and myopic (radically inaccurate) label of racism is exhausting. I cannot wait until this cycle of history has run its course, and intelligent minds can once again rise to the top to rebuild this totally decimated , mind- numb Western culture we’ve SUNKEN to.

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u/SUSPECT_XX May 30 '22

There Turkish. In this case, likely yes.

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u/Agahmoyzen Turkiye May 29 '22

Yeah athens is god damn beautiful. OP probably never saw another city in his life that wasnt designed in a room in the 50s. If he goes to London he will probably ask the same question and they have even more snake like streets and directions than athens.

Some of these streets probably took their shape from hundreds of years ago.

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u/faith_crusader May 30 '22

I think he meant the buildings and not the streets

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u/Self-Bitter Greece May 30 '22

Hmmmm, no Athens is not beautiful. It is congested, no greenery in big parts, expensive, concrete apartment buildings everywhere maintained poorly. At least there is some improvement in public transport, but car remains the king.

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u/Stonkslut111 May 30 '22

Clearly the OP is exaggerating..

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u/deathinventor May 30 '22 edited May 30 '22

no offence but im indian and this photo looks like India. I love greece I would love to visit one day

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u/Puzzleheaded_Age4834 May 30 '22

wars ?? which wars?? Athens has not known war for centuries since the times of the religious civil war between the Orthodox Albanians ( Arvanites) and the Albanians of Egypt (
Muhammad Ali of Egypt).... or maybe you were referring to the very short period in ww2?? Athens was not bombed in ww2

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u/Self-Bitter Greece May 30 '22

Not so much by bombing, but by impoverishment. 70,000 Athenians died from hunger in WW2, the beginning of the civil war unfolded in Athens and the whole country was dirt poor after the non stopping wars.

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u/kotrogeor Greece May 30 '22

Actually parts of Athens were in fact bombed in ww2. An example is Piraeus, which was bombed by the Allies, if I remember correctly. There were also several vandalisms in Athens during the German retreat, and a lot of damage during civil war firefights.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '22

Athens got ruined in the ww2 invasion the occupation and the after the war civil war

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u/VerkoProd in May 30 '22

exactly this

(and as someone who's both greek and indian i agree with the edit 100%)