The Crying Square

Tomorrow, public sector workers will demonstrate in the center of Athens against the agreement of the greek government with troika for 180.000 layoffs by 2015.

Their protest will start from the National Reconciliation Square where since 1989 stands the hononym statue of the Greek sculptor Vassilis Doropoulos.

The 8-meter-tall statue is made of copper and shows three men holding up each other's hand symbolizing the official end of the greek civil war.

From 1884 to 1989, this square was called the 25th of March but until today most Greeks know it as Klathmonos Square which means the Crying Square.

That's a nickname stuck on the square by a chronograph-er of the 19th century.

At that time the public sector workers were not permanent. Their jobs depended on the election result. Every time the government changed, public assistants were getting fired and the voters of the new government took their jobs.

Public sector workers used to gather up and wait for the results on this square. Their crying after losing the elections- and ,of course, their jobs- was not an uncommon picture of this part of the city at that time.

In 1878, the chronographer Dimitris Kamporoglou, making a pun, named the square the "Crying Square" in a chronograph published in "Estia" paper.

Currently, greek politicians lead Greece back to the 19th century. It seems they look forward to destroying more lives in order to put their voters in the public sector.