A Quote by Mikis Theodorakis
Greece is the only country in the Balkans that does not have territorial designs on its neighbors and wants to live in peace with them.
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Our friends, neighbors, and their families have been forced to live in the shadows out of fear of being torn from their families and deported from what is, for many of them, the only country they have ever known.
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