Western pundits love to compare Russia’s GDP to that of small European nations. But once you factor in purchasing power, shadow economies, and statistical quirks, the picture looks very different.
Western pundits love to compare Russia’s GDP to that of small European nations. But once you factor in purchasing power, shadow economies, and statistical quirks, the picture looks very different.
Thanks for your deprogram efforts comrade
Just setting the record straight. The Greek debt crisis was quite some time ago and younger leftists may not even remember it or how it really went down. Others may only have become leftists relatively recently and still have internalized left-overs of the many false narratives which were widespread in the mainstream media at that time. And most people don’t have the time to do a historical deep dive into the topic since so much bigger things are happening at the moment. So it’s entirely understandable that there are misconceptions about this subject. If i can help clear some of those up i’m glad to do so.
I still do. I remember the PIGS and whole lazy entitled southern europeans who dont want to work because siesta and wanting to retire at 50. That full propaganda package. Bonus point was when greek workers were being totally meanies to Opachen schäuble who totally was just stating the facts.
Also the weird time when people claimed that Brexit happened due to english solidarity with greece. Despite the UK being one of the top austerity pushers in the EU.
And they say Greeks are lazy, even though Greeks work the most hours in the EU, while Germans work the fewest.
We need a paper for this comrade. I had no material to read on that but I’ve seen that crisis very closely.