I would say that bit about WWII has some pretty revisionist history in it, although it's not surprising to see revisionist history in times when people are feeling so full of despair. The British didn't precipitate the Greek civil war, snipers on the Acropolis or not. The partisans were funded and supplied by Tito after WWII ended, to the liking of nobody, including Stalin. If any single entity is to blame for that tragedy it is the government of Yugoslavia (support for Greek communists was one of the major factors that led to the falling out between Stalin and Tito). It is disingenuous and a misreading of history to blame the British for the Golden Dawn. I suppose it could be argued that Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin had no business deciding in whose sphere of influence Greece lay, but the Greek people lucked out that Stalin decided not to challenge Churchill on Greece, the only country in the East to be afforded such fortune (but then, to argue this point is to argue about the role of Great Powers in general, not Greece specifically). If the standard of living in Greece is low by Western European standards, they need only to look to any of the European countries they border to figure out how bad it could have been.