QUOTE FOR THE DAY

"Recently released Soviet archives show that Trotsky roamed the Balkans before, during and after the Balkan Wars. He had made Thessaloniki his base of operations, hiding among the city's non-Greek elites and promoting the idea of converting the Balkans into the testing ground of proletarian internationalism. He had found refuge among the Jewish socialists in that city, where he befriended and mentored Abraham Benayora, founder of the first ethnically exclusive "socialist" Federation in Greece." ( "Balkan Ghosts, But Not Skeletons" by Dr. Nikolaos A. Stavrou ,published in THE NATIONAL HERALD , JULY 23, 2005)