novel very similar to N. Hidiroglou’s No to the Old City), had already explained the purpose of such actions as far back as 2001: “The plan was simple. They would wait for the chance to come; they would ‘manufacture’ it if needed – some big foreign policy event, a retreat in a national matter, or a political turmoil. Such an atmosphere was indispensable, and then the SPEAR Task Force ighters, along with selected parts of the military and the police, would attempt the big overthrow”117. Conclusion The purpose of our research has been to identify the currents that connect the military with a process of reversal of the democratization signaled by the Changeover – a reversal that, in conditions of crisis and an extensive “creative destruction”, takes on fascist features. We have documented this role by showing synergies between parts of the military and the ultra-right that conirm two trends: a) a “violation of the boundary” between war and peace; and b) a “violation of the boundary” between the military’s “political neutrality” and its active participation in political life and internal security against the internal and “outside-inside” enemy. We have privileged the terms “trends” or “currents” because, on the one hand, we did not want to underestimate certain “isolated incidents”; while, on the other, we did not want to suggest that these phenomena are dominant and the ensuing situation is inal – far from it. Let us be clear on this: the ultra-right is not the only player within the military, and it is far from the dominant movement. Ater all, this could not be the case in a country that participates in international institutions and is located in a region where any militarist experiment could very easily lead to unimaginable bloodshed. There are limits to both of the trends we have conirmed. For the high ranks of the military, the junta experience and the liberty of the Changeover period are still active, even if in an indirect way. Naturally, one cannot explain everything through the military. As long as the Greek government continues to implement the policy of “creative destruction” dictated by the Troika, a further right-wing radicalization of the military (as with other institutions) remains a plausible outcome. It will also be further reinforced as long as New Democracy tries to win over Golden Dawn’s electorate by occupying the latter’s ideological ground, by limiting the diferences between them exclusively to the level of economic policy. The SFROC’s public scheduling of a Saturday coup d’etat proved a simple joke. Within the Greek society, the speciic causes that brought about the 1967 tragedy may have ceased to exist, yet there are other, similar ones that not only persist but also, in a context of a thorough restructuring of the economy and the society, are dangerously reinforced. 117. O Ios, “The Changeover reversal”, I Eimerida ton Syntakton, 21.7.2013. MAPPING ULTRA-RIGHT EXTREMISM, XENOPHOBIA AND RACISM WITHIN THE GREEK STATE APPARATUS | 79