Events of a two-century History: Most of them we do not know, some we learned in summary. In our schools, we heard almost nothing about bankruptcies and crises beyond what our parents and grandparents said. Most of the wars were glorious - even if we lost them. The others were unfair and unequal against us - that's why we lost them. We forgot the first of the civil wars in the enthusiasm for the achievements of the heroes of 1821. We squeezed the second into one event, the assassination of Kapodistrias. We learned very little about the killings that he wanted to stop at the cost of his own life. We named the third civil war "Division" and it divided Greece into two states and the Church cursed the country's prime minister in a protest and the country had thousands of dead in protests - and in pogroms - in the neighborhoods of Athens. The winners named the fourth civil war "gang war" and the defeated made it a flag of revenge.

If Greek citizens knew the mistakes that brought our first six bankruptcies, we would have avoided the seventh. If our leaders knew how we reached the first three civil wars in our History, they would have denounced the civil war demagoguery.