The corrupt chief social-communists who are dragging the cities down! But which ITA? The news services have now calmed down. Those bitter and dark reports that circulated in those days in Europe have stopped. So the history of the war and tragedies of Bosnia is over. It now remained in Europe and not in Vlora. Meanwhile, the Italians, alarmed by the tragedy of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, chose to worry about the fate of the unfortunate Albanians and Muslims fleeing by speedboat, while in Italy other events were taking place. Vorio-Epir, as it had, in its own context, declared a state of war. The statement had appeared in the press and on television. The Bosnian from Vlora, terrified by the declaration of war, with dizzying speed, with one pig’s sandal in his hand and his trousers around his legs, had gone out onto the field in the bus park area and shouted all night: “We must no longer think about Bosnia but about Vlora!” This was followed by a series of alarms and immediate actions. With young men and young women, middle-aged people and old people, mothers and children, they left the entrances and exits of the shops, stopped buying goods, broke off their ongoing conversations and, with tears in their eyes, headed toward the scene. Oh God! What happened to us? But which ITA? My dear Adem Demçi, the modesty, nobility and calm of the chairman of the Vlora Municipal Council once again imposed balance in a city worn down by poverty and backwardness. As people walked in the center and through the city streets, they came across flowerpots and neatly trimmed squares, with most citizens carrying out their business in peace and the administration working. Where was the war taking place? Where was the tragedy happening? What “upheaval” was taking place in Vlora? Why were they leaving, leaving as if to escape war? This question troubled all those who had headed to the Bus Park, where the Bosnian from Vlora had organized his alarms. When they got there, they saw with surprise a truly tragicomic scene. The Bosnian from Vlora had come out like a madman before the people and was whispering and crying, sometimes lowering his head and sometimes raising his voice. “Vlora is lost, it is ruined, I could not live to see it!” Some took him for mad, others for frightened, and some as a man blowing a reed pipe at a funeral feast. But in the end, when it began to be understood what had reduced him to that state, everything made sense. They had taken away his chair. The chair he had kept through lies, threats, pressure, clientelist voting and artificial inflation. The chair of the mayor. That is why he was shouting. That is why he was howling. That is why he was crying and cursing. He had taken his own personal departure to mean the departure of Vlora. He had taken his own personal defeat to mean the destruction of the city. And since that did not stick, he immediately began another tune: “I will go to Strasbourg. I will internationalize the issue. I will denounce Europe.” A great hero. From Vlora to Strasbourg on a political dinghy. Many of those who had heard him finally saw that “But which ITA?” was not a question about the Italy of the news, but about the “Everything is leaving” of his chair. And so the city breathed more calmly. The proclaimed tragedy was only the personal tragedy of a man who was leaving the office. (To be continued on page 2)

At the assembly on the withdrawal of the Serbian army, he said: “You will escape Russian dependence and slavery…” In his greeting, on the occasion of the retirement of Pope Alexis of the Russian Orthodox Church, the chairman of the PS, Fatos Nano, declared that he would go to Moscow to ask the high Orthodox personalities there how they should proceed to save Albania from the Greek misfortune. According to Fatos Nano, Albania will escape this misfortune only when an Albanian-Russian Autocephalous Patriarchate is established in Moscow. The latter, he says, will replace the Albanian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, so as to be more worthy of the Albanian PS, which has not yet received all the Eastern blessings. Analysts think that this move is part of a new policy of electoral spiritualism. (To be continued on page 2)

The Greeks rejoice at the loss of the Bosnian from Vlora’s chair On the Greek news program “Antena,” on the day the Bosnian from Vlora lost his chair, the Greek announcer, reporting the news, said: “Our man in Vlora has also fallen.” This single sentence is enough to understand who supported him and why. Demaj, who took over the leadership of the municipality by decision of the councillors, was immediately presented as a danger to the interests of Greek circles. For this reason the cries, curses and declarations of catastrophe began. (To be continued on page 4)

Silence in the fortress of the economic and political prostitution of the social-communists, or do we think and act against this evil? … The reaction in recent days to the loss of the chair by the Bosnian from Vlora has been extremely significant. Almost the entire spectrum of social-communism, which in its political chaos had done everything with insults, fabrications and threats to keep its man at the head of the municipality by force and against his will, has yesterday been set in motion and found the most suitable language and figure to raise the voice of protest… … There has never been in Vlora a greater degeneration of political morality than this one we saw, when an ordinary loser was presented as a civic drama. (To be continued on page 2)

To the Albanian autocephalous Orthodox clergy and to Orthodox and Muslim believers on the occasion of Pentecost I wish that this marked day may carry forward the sacred message of kindness and love for one another, for our homeland and our beloved nation EDUARD SELAMI The Democrats of Albania

SERBIAN HANGOVER THAT TRIES TO REPLACE “RILINDJA” THE SKETCHED PANORAMA OF THE FIRST CRIME