Friday, May 15, 2015

Modern Ruins: What Banksters, Socialists and Crony Capitalists Have Done to Greece

Abandoned documents in a closed nut factory near Xanthi.

A broken marble sign reading Accountant’s Office lies on the floor of a deserted marble factory near Larissa.

                             Boxes of thread in a cotton spinning factory that closed in 2000.

A closed  factory in Thessaloniki.

(Pictures via The Guardian)

3 comments:

  1. I translated that broken sign. It reads:

    "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;
    Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

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  2. Reminds me of "The Sopranos" where the mob would target a business, move in, take the receipts, use up all the company credit, and leave an empty shell.

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