A LETTER TO ARJA SAIJONMAA Mikis Theodorakis

ΣΥΓΚΛΟΝΙΣΤΙΚΗ ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΗ-ΜΗΝΥΜΑ ΘΕΟΔΩΡΑΚΗ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΗΝ ARJA SAIJONMAA ΓΙΑ ΤΙΣ ΑΠΑΙΤΗΣΕΙΣ ΤΩΝ ΦΙΝΛΑΝΔΩΝ! "...όποιος τολμήσει να προσπαθήσει να μας εξαγοράσει, όχι μόνο θα χάσει, αλλά θα γίνει ο αιώνιος εχθρός μας."

Theodorakis protests

Athens, 30.8.2011



Dear Arja,


Please pass on to your kind compatriot, the Minister of Finance, that she is greatly mistaken if she believes that we Greeks will ever accept to give the guarantees she demands from today’s Greek Government in exchange for some loan from your country.

Even more so if those guarantees concern a part of our national wealth. You have lived with us during the times of struggle against military dictatorship, and therefore you know better than anyone our love for our country and our will to defend it at all costs.

Back then it was the dictators that had stolen our freedom. Now our ‘friends’, exploiting our misfortune, ask of us to sell them in exchange for a fistful of Euro the body of our country: our national integrity.

This is never going to happen! And whoever dares to try to buy us off, will not only lose but will also become our eternal enemy.

Also tell her that the Government with which she is now negotiating is only supported by less than 20% of the Hellenic people, and that soon the great majority of our People will vigorously invalidate all these vile transactions.

With love for you and the People of Finland,


Kind regards,


Mikis Theodorakis


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A COMMENT FOR GUY WAGNER

Dear Guy,

Please, I would like to ask you to underline that what I write to the Finnish Minister, applies also to all our “friends” European leaders, who (as I believe) have found a good opportunity to plunder our country buying even Acropolis!

Unfortunately there is such a plan against Greece.

Please, tell them, if you agree, that although I am 86 years old, I am leading “Spitha” (“Spark”), a Movement of Resistance, just as I have done during the dictatorship.

80% of our people condemns the acts of our Government.

So for us all decisions of this Government are invalid and we will fight against them (just like we have done against the Junta) to our death.

Best regards,

Mikis

Mikis Theodorakis