Parliament changes the date of Albania’s Liberation again Debates among MPs - The Second World War is still not over Parliament changes the date of Albania’s Liberation again 29 November Returns Debates among MPs - The Second World War is still not over Page 3

The date of Albania’s Liberation has been changed again, and this time by vote. During yesterday’s parliamentary session, the quarrels among MPs confirmed deputy Ngjela’s statement that “the Second World War has not yet ended in Albania.” Exactly 53 years later, Albanians still find themselves in a dilemma over the date of their state’s Liberation. If a foreigner were to ask when Albania was liberated, the most accurate answer would be: “The right-wingers say 28 November, the left-wingers say 29 November, and it is not known what will happen in four years.” The fact that a state has not yet stabilized the day of its liberation from the Nazi-fascist occupiers is the clearest proof of politics being placed above everything else. Was Albania really liberated on 29 November, or was this date set by Enver Hoxha? Is the date established by the PD deputies four years ago the correct one? Should the PS have changed the liberation holiday yesterday? Albanian politicians asked themselves all these questions and answered them themselves, taking upon themselves not only to make politics, but also to write history. And the result: two dates that change every time the government changes. Schoolchildren who received the textbooks three years ago learned in their history book that their country had been liberated on 28 November. Others will henceforth read that Albania was liberated on 29 November. And this is because the author of the history textbooks continues to be politics, not historians. Albanian deputies showed yesterday that they do not need lessons from historians or evidence from archives. They tried to tell who fought more, the partisans or the ballists, and accused one another of falsifying history. “History cannot be changed by some moronic historians or failed politicians,” Pandeli Majko said yesterday. He is not a historian, but a political party figure, and yet he took it upon himself, on behalf of a group of deputies, to demand a change in the liberation date. Was Albania liberated on 28 or 29 November? Choosing one of these dates, however true it may be, when it is done by politicians it comes wrapped in political accusations and carries subjectivity. Political, not historical, changes have created and continue to create dangerous precedents in Albania with written history as it has existed. The fact that for all that centuries-long history of Albania there are so few written pages speaks, too, as does the consequence of the bad tradition of erasing what was done before. Yesterday’s change by politicians of the date of Albania’s Liberation, whether correct or not, places the country in a historical date, leaving Albanians with a debate at their doorstep; perhaps they were left with 29 November and not the day Albania was liberated, one side claims, and perhaps now Berisha is being asked to change the date again when he comes to power. This extreme deterioration of relations has tended to repeat itself, as long as politicians continue to write politics. And in truth, the nature of Albanian politicians can show it.

Vranicki, parting with the Albanians Chancellor Franc Vranicki yesterday at Rinas Airport Photo REUTERS

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