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Socialist Destruction of Greece


Modern ruins: the ghost factories of Greece – in pictures

Abandoned factories all over Greece once made everything from marble to nuts and cooking oil – and since they shut up shop, most of them have been looted, which only adds to the scenes of desolation. Yannis Behrakis from Reuters took a 1,550 mile road trip to show the remnants of the country’s industrial past


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Friday 15 May 2015 05.03 EDT Last modified on Friday 15 May 2015 07.58 EDT




A Greek flag draped over the gate of a deserted cooking oil factory in Elefsina, which closed in 1996




Abandoned documents in a nut factory near Xanthi, which closed in 1995




A broken marble sign reading Accountant’s Office lies on the floor of a deserted marble factory near Larissa that closed in 2006




Deserted grain silos in front of snowcapped Mount Olympus near Larissa

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An accounting book left on the floor of the management offices of a deserted marble factory near Larissa




Boxes of thread in a cotton spinning factory in Larissa that closed in 2000




Graffiti on dust-covered glass at a deserted textile factory near Larissa that closed in 1995




A factory in Thessaloniki that closed in the early 1990s

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The Izola factory in Thebes. Izola, a manufacturer of home appliances, was founded in 1930 and shut its doors in 1986




A Christmas tree left on the floor of a logistics and international transportation company in Thessaloniki that closed in 2012




A punching-in clock at the entrance of a cooking oil factory in Elefsina that closed in 1996




The entrance of Larissa’s deserted marble factory, which closed in 2006




The rusty gate of a textile factory near Larissa that closed in 1995




Graffiti in a deserted fruit-packing factory near Xanthi that closed down in the late 1990s




A calendar from the year 2000 beside a destroyed electricity panel in a cotton spinning factory in Larissa
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