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Sarcasm from London aside, read this NYTimes opinion piece for ignored historical perspective on Greece. It posits that the Lausanne Treaty is a big factor in the Greek mindset today. (Plus 1940s civil war & 1960s-70s military rule.) The treaty was Europe's solution circa 1922 that condoned the movement of an estimated 400,000 Muslims from Greece and more than 1.2 million surviving Greek Christians from Turkey - including members of my family. Today, the author says, because Greeks were lorded over by Ottomans for 400 years, they won't be controlled by central bankers nor any authority including government. The Times recommends a journalist's book we have: "Twice A Stranger: How Mass Expulsions Forged Modern Greece & Turkey," by Bruce Clark.
You can't blame the population's tax evasion on prior oppression, but some Greeks are beyond frustrated or defiant. Watch the Prism GR2010 episode "Roads, Rage & Relics" (under the lawlessness theme) to see regular Greeks blowing off tolls and exhibiting societal breakdown in action.