October 23, 2012

The Terrifying Rise of Greek Nazis

Eliza Griswold, The New Republic

AP Photo

Gulam Hussein, a 20-year-old Afghan with a bushy brush cut, hates Greece. He’d leave if he could—even if that meant returning to the imperiled village in eastern Afghanistan that he fled a decade ago. “Anywhere but Greece,” he told me one afternoon late this summer in Athens. “I’d heard it was bad here, but I didn’t know how bad.”

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