What will the anti-EU revolution in Greece be like?

Most Eastern-European countries have succeeded in getting rid of communism, at least on a declarative level, through "the victory" of some "velvet" revolutions.

A quarter of century later, a "prisoner" in another "prison of nations", the European Union has achieved the miracle of escaping through a referendum. In this case, it is unknown whether the prisoner will succeed in crossing the "minefield" found beyond the walls, represented by the lengthy separation negotiations.

Unfortunately, not all prisoners in the EU benefit from the luxury of the referendum and that is not because it is prohibited de jure. Most smaller countries in the EU, Greece included, seem to be suffering from a kind of the "Stockholm syndrome", a psychological syndrome, characterized through empathy and sympathy for the aggressor, sometimes going as far as identifying with them.

But the explanation is rather a different one. The Greek people has become the prisoner of political elites which not only no longer represent its interests, but which are instead betraying it in broad daylight.

Whether it is the Socialist Party or the New Democracy, who have shared the government between them after the fall of the Colonels' regime, and are responsible for the financial and humanitarian catastrophe that began at the end of the last decade, or Syriza, which didn't have the courage to end it, the current political class represents the biggest existential threat to Greece's millenary history.

One year after the last notable presence of the crisis in Greece in the international press, an article on the CNBC website tries to find a pulse in this European zombie.

Following the third bailout program, amounting to 86 billion Euros, the government in Athens has deepened the austerity measures.

Expense cutting has gone so far that even the measures against mosquitoes have been abandoned, and the effect is the return of malaria in Greece (author's note: the indigenous one, not the one that is imported), a disease which had been eradicated about 40 years ago, as the international press writes.

Also, 15% of the population of 11 million lives in extreme poverty, according to the definition of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OCDE), up 2.2% in 2009.

On the other hand, the Tsipras government announced an incredible measure to increase budget revenues. The Greek press writes that "the wealth of all households must to be reported, down to the last Euro", that probably being one of the last steps prior to the imposition of new taxes.

The KeepTalkingGreece (KTG) blog reproduced a piece of news from the To Vima daily, which states that "the registration of wealth will come into effect on February 2017", and "over 8.5 million taxpayers will have to declare all their movable and fixed assets".

Furthermore, "any change in the status of the assets must be reported immediately". It is still unclear how the authorities will manage such a plan and how much it will cost, but most importantly, who is going to pay for it all.

The CNBC article reports that many small and medium sized articles have effectively been left with people aged over 60 and below 20, while the active population has emigrated.

Other data from the Ministry of Labor, originally published by KTG, shows that 127,000 employees are paid monthly salaries of 100 Euros, and about 340,000 have monthly gross wages ranging between 100 and 400 Euros, as the combined population's outstanding debts to the state budget amount to about 90 billion Euros. Almost a million and a half taxpayers have already received summons for payment, which state that asset seizure is next.

The social context of the application of the new law is also described on the website of the American TV network. "Nobody believes in anything anymore. People have withdrawn within their own families and are only fighting for their own survival. Society has fragmented", a resident of the city of Thessaloniki told CNBC.

Coming back home after working in London for a while, Evangelos Kyrimlis noted that "there is an increasing animosity between people and an extensive hate, but without a precise target", he told CNBC. "It's everyone against everyone", Kyrimlis further noted, who stressed "the huge hate of the employees in the private sector against the employees of the state".

American analyst Martin Armstrong states that the attempt of the authorities in Athens to move to the pursuit and general taxation of wealth "will send Greece's economy in the fourth world" and "there are no chances of the future changing", because "it is government corruption has created this nightmare".

"The Greek government has lost its mind completely and it intends to exploit the population just to stay in the Eurozone, without even the smallest evidence of the benefits of that action", Armstrong further writes and he asks the question whether "the time for revolution has come in Greece". According to its estimates, the social explosion in Greece will occur in the second half of 2018.

A similar time frame is mentioned in a recent analysis by Citigroup. The analysts of the major American bank thinks that Greece's exit from the Eurozone is very likely in the next three years, amid the deepening of the economic recession and political instability.

"Those who make peaceful revolutions impossible, make violent revolutions inevitable", president John F. Kennedy said once.

The statement was made during the Cold War as a warning to the totalitarian regimes in South America, but it now seems to be a better fit to the "non-imperial empire" in Europe.

Something has to happen, because it is hard to believe that Greeks, the founders of the European civilization, will accept being wiped from history.

What will the anti-EU revolution in Greece be like?