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Low trust societies often cultivate environments where individuals depend heavily on kinship and immediate community ties rather than the state for social order and support. In modern Greece, this pervasive distrust has roots in a historical disdain for the state, exacerbated by periods of tyranny, war, and social upheaval. The brutal Nazi occupation and subsequent civil war only deepened these rifts, further embedding clientelism and corruption within its political fabric.