Sixteen interviews with figures from the "old" Left, who fought for their ideas and paid the price with persecution –being hunted, exclusion, exile, imprisonment– compose this book, which is now published –with the "current" Left at the center of the political stage and all the spotlight on it– not merely as "history," nor simply as nostalgia…
With Olga Bakomara, I lived together for ten years in the same office at Eleftherotypia. Thus, I experienced firsthand her glorious reputation for her interviews. I do not know and have not learned Olga's secret with the interviews she conducted; otherwise, perhaps I would have done the same. Olga has the ability, indeed the gift, to elicit (this is the word) from every person their true self.
This probably unlocks the essence of Olga's life: she is her true self, without any egotistical manner, but rather with her principles, ideological, moral, and political, and her admirable respect for humanity.
As for the Left, this magnificent comet out of orbit, through Olga's interviews, the brilliance and the dust of the figures who shaped its fate, as well as the fate of the country, are portrayed, during a time of "great expectations" and "stormy winds," which continues…
Stathis S. Cartoonist
