Ramiz Alia was a member of the Fascist Party
HISTORY / The former president has been in the structures of the DUGES for 2 years
While the Federation of Associations of Former Fascists in Tirana sent a fax to the Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini recommending a similar action for Albania regarding Civitella del Tronto, former president Ramiz Alia was a member of the fascist party at a very young age.
After a meeting yesterday, the association Brotherhood of Italo-Albanians of Albania sent a memorandum to the government and to the secretary of the Federation of Associations of Former Fascists of Italy, informing them that none of the Albanians who had admired Mussolini for a future without occupiers should be considered “fascists” anymore. So far everything sounds normal. But between the lines of the PD there still emerges the idea from such groups, and today’s blood feud in Kosovo is addressed with the same calmness even to former members of the opposition. Yet while on Saturday, with questions and statements, it declared that there could never have been a fascist party in the history of Albania, in 1990 Alia then decreed pluralism, although only insofar as the contribution of these organizations in Albania remained, because they were different. The further article shows that in his own autobiography, written in 1948 in his own hand, Ramiz Alia states: “I was born in Shkodër, on 18 October 1925, the son of Xhemal Alia, a textile worker, and of my mother, Teme. I completed primary school in my hometown. In 1940 I took my mother’s surname Tare, since my father died in 1936. During the Italian occupation, in February 1940, her[?] father emigrated to Italy. At the age of 17, in October 1942, I became a member of the Albanian Fascist Youth Party, which at that time included all young people from 17 to 20 years old. I was[?] school secretary, youth organizer in the city.” Closely linked to the very young, Alia attached importance to the penetration of communist ideology in Albania, but the first document from 1943 states that he had been part of fascist youth organizations. At 29, after liberation, he attended the senior officers’ course in Odessa on issues of state and security.
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