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The attack on an Athens bank that left three dead stirred memories of the blood-spattered years of Greek civil war in the 1940s.<\/em><\/p>\n

When 44-year-old Marie-Therese Iatrou, who lives in a comfortable suburb outside Athens, spoke this week to her mother, Renna Nezos, she detected a note of panic in the 78-year-old’s voice.<\/p>\n

“I want to come and live with you outside the city,” said Mrs Nezos, whose childhood home was occupied by the Nazis and who has vivid memories of the bloodshed of the civil war that followed. “I’ve seen this before.” <\/p>\n

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\nBut as the demonstrators chanted “Thieves, thieves” on Wednesday, there will have been many in Greek society who know that the cry is addressed to them: industrialists; politicians; even parts of the Orthodox Church that plays such a huge part in Greek life \u2013 all stand accused of milking the rest of society.<\/p>\n

In the worst-case scenario, it may be payback time. Poor against rich. Masses against elite. There are plenty who feel they have little, on earnings of just a few hundred euros a month, to lose.<\/p>\n

Will the crowds limit themselves to slogans draped across the Acropolis in future? Or will demonstrators who are usually dismissed as relics of the past actually storm the bastions of privilege that surround them today? It may seem unlikely to far-off observers, but not so to those of a certain vintage in Greece, particularly those who lived through the 1946-49 war that pitted Greece’s communists against the US and UK-backed Right.<\/p>\n

“Everyone from my mother’s generation who lived through the civil war is worried,” says Ms Iatrou. “It was a very bloody conflict. And the Communist Party is still a powerful force here. My mother is coming to stay with us because she is sure it’s going to happen again.<\/p>\n

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