According to the Soviet news agency TASS, from 29 August the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR is voting in Parliament, and on 23 August, in the presence of the President of the RSFSR Boris Yeltsin, the decree suspending the activity of the Communist Party in Russia was signed. Is this not the end of a century-long history? Or the Soviet party’s greatness? The grand historical framework, spun around the world as a triumph of international organizations in a trade of cold handshakes, collapsed in a few moments in August 1917 with a violent return as the wheels of history turned. From the summit to which it had been raised by violence, red ideology continues to fall into its own abyss. At the center of this drama, at the great turn of the century, communism is appearing as an evil ghost of humanity. Glasnost, voices, fear, pouring other countries into this vortex of upheaval as well, stamped the great drama of this system. Yesterday’s use of force, internments, shootings, bureaucracy and ideological lies brought to an end a world that had built power over man. The revolt of the peoples cast aside this monster of the twentieth century. The block of violence and the empire of fear, for a long period, kept Eastern Europe under its hoof. But in the end this great wall too was broken and collapsed. Those millions of victims, in prisons, concentration camps and internments, could no longer be hidden by silence. The bloody history of communism became living testimony against its very ideology. [?] this ending did not come by chance. It was the result of the economic, moral and human failure of the system. Poverty, lack of freedom, control over thought, the war against religion, against property and against any individual initiative turned life into a daily hell. In the name of equality the greatest inequality was raised; in the name of the people the people were ruled. Today, when the red symbol is fading in the land where the revolution was born, the world sees how dangerous this deception has been. This history is not only Soviet; it is a lesson for all countries that experienced it on their own skin. Albania, which knew to the very end the absurdity of this system, cannot stand outside this judgment of history. The continuation of this process will be the liberation of memory. Files must be opened, victims must speak, crimes must be condemned, and society must finally be separated from the totalitarian past. Otherwise, the demon can return in new forms, with new names, but with the same oppressive spirit. In this sense, the fall of communism is also a moral victory of man over the system that denied man. That is why the end of the Communist Party in Russia is not merely a political news item, but a great historical turning point.

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Activities of the PD PEASANT RALLY IN THE CITY OF KAVAJË

PEASANT RALLY IN THE CITY OF KAVAJË

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