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Putin for PM

There can, in my mind, only be one solution for Greece's financial and social woes - Vladimir Putin, says Dean Kalimniou in this week's diatribe

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Putin for PM
24 May 2012

Since Greece would then have become a constituent republic of the Russian Federation, it would become the favoured playground and holiday resort of the Russian people, injecting much needed funds into the economy. Petrol and gas would be cheap and Greece could, with a Russian army on its soil, safely exploit its own furl resources, other claimants to them having been cowed into submission by a Putinesque frown.
A Putin in a manly foustanella, much like King Otto who preferred the garment, would be a much more acceptable representative of the Greek people on the international stage than our previous colourless Prime Ministers. In the words of Mr T, he would finally be able to facilitate the Greek people into getting some nuts and moving forward. He is Orthodox, and we are Orthodox, so the monks of Mount Athos, those resisters of ecumenism and climate change are bound to anoint him emperor and then, who knows? Maybe he will forge a mighty Orthodox Empire that will see our eastern enemies scattered to the winds and force our western foes to abandon their abominable heresies?
There is absolutely no need for a second round of elections in Greece, should Putin become a candidate. In that eventuality, this diatribist will found an offshoot Putin's Army, a troop originally formed of healthy young Russian girls so dedicated to Putin's re-election, that their breasts in public, in order to emphasize the fervour of their convictions. Our offshoot, Putin's Hellenic Army, will be formed of disinterested high school girls with bleached blonde hair, who will lift their palms in the characteristic mountza, as they march past all politicians, other than Putin.
As far-fetched and implausible as it sounds, the possibility of Putin running Greece is not as outlandish as the proposition that the Greek people will be able to elect a government comprised of politicians who are mature, professional and able to put the country's interests before their own and the second round of elections fills us with foreboding. Unless of course, Agathangelos' blond race refers to Eleni Menegaki. Or maybe after all, salvation comes from within.
* Dean Kalimniou is a Melbourne solicitor and freelance journalist.

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I liked your article and your subtle sense of humour!!!!
Dear Dean, As much as I may respect Putin for being the iron-leader he is, I must say I think you are out of your mind for proposing a foreign leader to solve Greece's troubles. What appears as a disaster must be turned to opportunity. A new leader must rise in Greece, someone unexpected or one with new fervor. First step is culling the current political aristocracy - Papandreou, Mitsotakis, Karamanlis, etc hereditary political families. Second step is to communicate to the people in Greece that hard work - and hard work alone will give us back our pride. But to even conceive of proposing a foreign leader is, with all due respect, as cowardly as it is idiotic, regardless of the distinctly amusing undertones of your note here. Respectfully, N-E

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