Yanis Varoufakis
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2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3 May
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And when it was discovered that he had never graduated, he was put on a boat to anywhere.
He ended up in Egypt.
So there he met my grandmother, who was a French orphan who had been put through a French school.
But somehow, you know, they blended into this Greek community, British community, Italian community, Jewish community, this multi-ethnic white community of Egypt.
Your politics...
Was she very political?
Absolutely.
My mother was my political mentor, even though my father spent four years in a concentration camp for leftists.
Yeah.
My father had a Greek culture from his dad and from having gone to a Greek school in Cairo.
So in 1945, he was 20, 21, he was working for a bank in Cairo.
He was really...
very well off.
He didn't have to do what he did, but he decided he wanted to be a scientist.
And he decided he's going to study in Athens, because his way of finding his Greek roots.
And that was the interregnum between the first Civil War, which ended under, you remember, the Winston Churchill inspired clash between the left and the right in the end of 1944.
Because it's important, really, to mention that
You know, the Cold War began in Greece.
It did not begin in Berlin.
It began in, you know, all terrible things begin in Greece, like the Euro crisis much later, for some reason, which I am not familiar with.
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