People have not only heroes, but also scoundrels. In the history of a place, scoundrels also contribute to its history. In any case, the history of a place is not just a series of positive events. After all, in a dialectical understanding of things, if there was no denial, there would be no affirmation.

This concise history of Greece from 1830 to 1974, which was written to be primarily a pleasant read, focuses more on the negatives rather than the positive events of our history. It gives greater importance to the traitors, the collaborators of all periods, and the homeland betrayers who have never been absent, rather than those who genuinely cared for this unfortunate land, which continues to suffer from a lack of historical honesty.

The orators of the two national anniversaries, which are perhaps two because one is not enough to understand that we are Greeks, will find nothing useful for them in this book. However, teachers could easily use it as a tool and supplement to the officially censored school histories, which aim more at dumbing down rather than awakening Greek children, who, having been immersed in the institutionalized historical lie from a tender age, it would be illogical to expect them to become responsible and honest citizens of a state full of fraudsters.

This book loves Greece. And for that reason, it does not flatter it. It calls a fig a fig and traitors traitors, not national heroes. It could have been titled "Negative History of Modern Greece" if denial was not necessary for affirmation. Therefore, this book aims for affirmation through denial, following the advice of Theodor Adorno.