The Crisis, The Junta and Why Greeks Are On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

“What we really need is a junta. Nothing is going to change otherwise. During the junta we didn’t have any debts. What’s the difference? we are under a German dictatorship anyways.”
This is a statement of twenty-one year old engineering student Nikos. Nikos isn’t the only twenty-something Greek who thinks that Greece needs a junta to get out of the deadlock. Walking around Athens, at coffee shops, in universities, at taverns, you hear that a lot.
More and more people believe that Greece needs a drastic change or things are going to get worse and worse as more austerity measures are being voted for the precious bailout packages. Frustration, depression and anger have led Greeks to believe that even a coup would be more effective than this austerity policy. Whether they really believe that a junta would be the solution to Greece’s problems, or if it’s the frustration