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This is the Porsche urban legend put to rest by Diomidis Spinellis who ran the Finance Ministry Information Systems'administration for 2 years and who should know (also: possibly registered here at the European Tribune IIRC).

One of the annoying aspects of this whole crisis is that urban legends and various exaggerated claims like this, originate often from the neolib economic / political establishment, people who have no clear idea of what is happening in Greece outside Athens' and Thessaloniki's poshest neighborhoods, and have never been in the vicinity of the poorest members of their society without being surrounded by armed bodyguards...

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake

by talos (mihalis at gmail dot com) on Fri Feb 15th, 2013 at 01:09:30 PM EST
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Even the poshest neighbourhoods never matched the posh bits of London or Paris - or Dublin. It's  a justifying myth, easy to believe because it justifies being total selfish dicks.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Fri Feb 15th, 2013 at 02:07:38 PM EST
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