Imagine an ancient civilization woven into the fabric of a region for three millennia, suddenly uprooted and erased by the "dual-track" mechanics of a collapsing empire. In this episode of pplpod, we conduct a structural archaeology of the Greek Genocide, deconstructing the decade of violence in the Ottoman Empire from 1913 to 1923. We unpack the "White Massacre" logic—a strategy of death by attrition, exposure, and exhaustion rather than firing squads—and analyze the calculated "Rule of 20" that atomized families to destroy cultural cohesion. We deconstruct the horrific reality of the Labor Battalions, where survival rates dropped as low as 23 out of 3,000 men, and examine the 1922 Great Fire of Smyrna, a cataclysmic climax that saw up to 100,000 perish as they  ...