It's Europe that has suffered a reputational catastrophe in Greece
Oxi Day has totemic significance in Greece. It commemorates the defiant Greek 'No' to Mussolini's ultimatum in 1940, and the heroic acceptance of war against a bigger military machine.
It is the same word that will top the ballot sheet when Greeks vote in a snap referendum tomorrow on creditor demands. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is not shy in evoking the same spirit of wartime resistance.
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