Anthology of wounds - Arct

Anthology of Woundsyouth, i.e. new generations that never had the ominouschance of knowing what the communism really was.As a matter of fact, the school curricula – especially thenational history – lacks substantial data related with theyears of the communist dictatorship, and above all, noexplanation at all is given about what this bloody regimemeant for the everyday life of a simple Albanian.The process of empowering and consolidation of thecommunists’ regime in Albania was really a bloody one,such as could be a process called ‘war’. The so-called‘class struggle’ was in reality a civil war, without rulesand honor, merciless and out of every human law. Thiswar has been coined through massive falsifications anda notorious propaganda that disorientated the population.The dictatorship carefully selected the ‘class enemies’to be annihilated in a constant and continuousway – first of all, the intellectuals.The criminal nature of the communist regime ofEnver Hoxha was absolutely not a consequence of thecircumstances – as its apologists use to say. As a matterof fact, this nature was made from a secret code whoserules were précised from the dictator and his tight collaborators.An attentive eye will easily pick up an evolutionarytrend to the communist regime of EnverHoxha, i.e. some kind of change: let’s say, from the year1950 to the year 1980 some changes were really made.Those changes were in fact related to the intrinsic dynamicsof the system, rather than being an adaptationto the international situation.Unfortunately the fear of a ‘potential persecution’ iseven now – more than fifteen years after the reversal ofthe dictatorship – present at the memory of all people6