Anthology of wounds - Arct

Anthology of Woundsliving under the direct influence of the communism.Such a fear is being transmitted to new generations thatnever lived under dictatorship, and this transmissionprobably is not verbally done, nor it is intentional, evena not in a conscious way.The fear was born and penetrated inside the cells ofthe Albanian life: the psychological trauma that followedwas a really harsh one. Nowadays we may run a meticulousscanning of the dictatorship, but we still are farfrom understanding the internal mechanisms of its functioning.Probably this is because the persons that shouldjudge the entire process are on the other hand even themshaped from the infamous period of communist dictatorship.This criminal suppressive machine has to bestudied entirely: what was the role of the labor party(PLA) inside the hierarchy of violence; what was therole of sigurimi – the secret police of the period; whatwas the role of other organisms such as the youth league,the simple communist cellules etc. etc.A special characteristic of the communist regime wasthe concentration of the power in a very small group ofparty leaders that by definition are not subject to any lawof any kind: the party is above all, even above the laws.The party is controlling the state so thoroughly, that theborders between the state and the party are extremely nebulousduring the communist dictatorship. The party of laboris controlling the everyday life second by second, andsuch a thing had never happened before in Albania. Thespies were controlling everything said and done; denouncingwas widely encouraged, censorship was applied routinely.The communist way of directing and organizingthe state has in its foundation an incontestable and cruelverity: the human rights are violated systematically.7