1st edition: October 2020

Countless events, ideologies, and patterns challenge us to embrace the convenience of the cliché "history repeats itself." Of course, history does not reappear exactly the same, but it creates highly interesting déjà vu.

How similar are the Siemens affairs of the Interwar period and 1953-1957 to what we've seen since 1990? How did the financial scandals of 1928-1932 and 1946-1951 operate, and what did they foreshadow? What does the striking similarity between today's condemnations against foreign refugees and those against "Turk-born" individuals in 1922 indicate?

Numerous events, known or unknown, seem like "ancestors" of what we would later experience. The stock market scandal of 1872-1874 connects the café "Beautiful Greece" with Sofokleous in 1999. Police beat students demonstrating for free education and Article 16 of the Constitution, but not in the 1960s, the "15%", or during the Metapolitefsi. In the era of Trikoupis.

During the Interwar period, an... invisible battleship, of German construction, claims the title of "father" of the "submerged" submarine "Papanikolis." The involvement of Mount Athos in the Macedonian issue, when it did not trigger diplomatic battles, caused... monastic brawls (1905). And so many more...

Dionysis Eleftheratos, five years after the "Rascals in Khaki," scrutinizes the press, starting from the years of Otto. He seeks interpretations and consequences of events in politics, economy, society, and everyday customs. He follows disputes, truces, stable routes, "twists," clever moves, blunders, in a continuous "tango" between drama and comedy...