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I was there for a week and drove all over the island but did not see any crime or guns. In fact the island had very low police presence. I think I only saw a police car once.
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The Gun Culture of Crete and World War II Memories
The island of Crete is home to great traditions and proud, defiant people who function mainly on tight kinship and friendship ties. Greece’s largest and southernmost island has 620,000 people and its rich, fertile land and gorgeous seaside make it a self-sufficient heaven for locals. Politico...
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That's precisely because the civvies are well armed (and mostly "unofficially"..."gun? what gun?...never heard of it") heh.
Gangs and criminal elements know better than to start crap with a well armed populace... they are probably infused in various ways with the community intrinsically (whatever mafia and political patronage etc) rather than a typical mainstream hoodlum/ethnic/immigrant-based/inserted gang/drug-trade element like we see with lot of other places in West...the types that take advantage of a low-armed populace relying on cops by finding the nooks and crannies left behind to operate out of sustainably.
Anyways, its music thread...its going off topic now heh.
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In Greece, there is a strong and distinct gun culture in two places. Crete and the Mani peninsula. Both are firmly rooted in the liberation of said regions from the Ottomans, with the culture in Crete also getting re-defined due to what happened to the island in WWII.
Now...to get back ontopic.
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same regions of the Balkans under the German and Axis occupation in WW2
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Crete is actually like the Black Sea region. Very friendly people but if you piss them off you are a dead man. I actually been to Crete many times. I like the big round bread and Red wine.
let me add a song as well. ;
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Yup I mention in thread here: https://defencehub.live/threads/combat-analysis-thread.488/#post-2828
BTW my first introduction to Greek story in WW2 was when I was just small kid watching with my dad one of his favourite movies, the musical number is ofc quite famous folk song "Gialo Gialo" I believe:
These are fine people...
It is same tune for song I learned in school very young as "Down by the bay".
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Congratulations mister bsruzm! You are being appointed as my personal DJ. With regards!
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Honestly guys, the folk music of every nation is probably my favourite kind of music overall...because it is the soul of the country if you know what I mean.
If a turkish member could give me rough idea of the lyrics, I would be grateful.
If a turkish member could give me rough idea of the lyrics, I would be grateful.
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I don't see a Zep song up here in this thread yet....being a huge fan of them, I will do the honours:
This song hits me in a very different way now than it did before. I have been to California a number of times, even when I was quite young (San Francisco was the first place of US I ever saw...I was 10 years old) and it always seemed a land of promise, wonder and great beauty and totally different to anything I had seen before and lived in....
....sure it had its oddities and issues too, but the people were always overall quite laid back, open and friendly. Later in life it was a top contender for where I was looking to study and settle...I had the paper in hand ready to go, but I picked Canada in the end.
But now I see a great pain, anger and tension within it....I guess reflecting what is confronting the larger county it is part of.
I don't know if things are going to go back to the way I remember them earlier....here's hoping.
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This song hits me in a very different way now than it did before. I have been to California a number of times, even when I was quite young (San Francisco was the first place of US I ever saw...I was 10 years old) and it always seemed a land of promise, wonder and great beauty and totally different to anything I had seen before and lived in....
....sure it had its oddities and issues too, but the people were always overall quite laid back, open and friendly. Later in life it was a top contender for where I was looking to study and settle...I had the paper in hand ready to go, but I picked Canada in the end.
But now I see a great pain, anger and tension within it....I guess reflecting what is confronting the larger county it is part of.
I don't know if things are going to go back to the way I remember them earlier....here's hoping.
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Beautiful brother.. beautiful
