Greece Outside In: Greece elections, the national mood: Battered by crippling austerity, can country be restored by a radical change of direction?

Even in the midst of Greece’s financial woes a few years ago, not many could have conceived a staunchly left-wing party ever becoming government. But when a cataclysmic crisis comes along and wipes out a quarter of a country’s GDP in a few years, a lot of unexpected things happen.