As a response to politics in the offices of the communist state security, the American ambassador in Albania, William R.erson, sent a notice to the Albanian embassy in Cairo. As a response to politics in the offices of the communist state security, the American ambassador in Albania, William Rajerson, sent a notice [?] to the Albanian embassy in Cairo Time signs for the arrest of the Catholic translator and their sending to the prisons of the communist government (Continues on page 4) [the text in the image of the handwritten document is mostly illegible] For reasons of the need to interpret the copy, the President of the Republic issued a decree for [???]. This [???] and [???] The body [?] of the [???] Albanian official is moving [???]. Dr. BEQIR META The opening of the archives is increasingly revealing shocking truths about the circumstances of the arrest of the Albanian cleric and well-known poet, dom Shtjefën Kurti. The document presented here is being published for the first time. It has been preserved in the Central State Archive. Its contents shed light on some extremely dark aspects of the communist political process that led to the conviction of the distinguished Albanian cleric and intellectual. The document is a petition with 145 signatures. It is a powerful protest against the death sentence of dom Shtjefën Kurti by the communist court and his execution in 1971. In fact, this sentence was issued at a time when the United States had raised its interest section in the French embassy in Tirana to the level of an office and an official correspondence had long been underway with the Albanian embassy in Rome for the restoration of Albania’s diplomatic relations with the United States. The petition presented here was sent on 23 October 1970. The contents of the document shed light on some interesting aspects of dom Shtjefën Kurti’s life. Among other things, he was described as an anti-Zogist patriot, anti-Yugoslav and nationalist. The very fact that he was portrayed in these dimensions is a clear indication that the communist trial was a political trial against a personality of great importance for the Albanian nation and the Albanian Catholic Church.

The press and information office at the President of the Republic announces: President Sali Berisha, during his second presidency, will make an official visit to the United States. The invitation was extended by President Bill Clinton. The President of the Republic of Albania, Dr. Sali Berisha, has received an invitation for an official visit to the United States of America from the President of the United States, Bill Clinton. President Berisha will be a guest of the state, on which occasion the senior American administration will also organize special ceremonies in honor of the high-ranking Albanian شخصیت. President Berisha’s visit to the United States will take place during his second presidency.

In the 1945 exchanges, the United States repeatedly brought the Albanian leadership a voluminous file with evidence that 1,000 Albanian refugees from Kosovo were being held hostage in Yugoslavia by force; the UDB executed them in the footsteps of the PKSH Na përvetim me mbështetjeve nga dokumentat e qeverisë së Jugosllavisë UDB i ka ekzekutuar me e Qeverisë Jugosllave. UDB i ka ekzekutuar me të vërtetë të PKSH (Continues on page 8) As soon as the communist power was taken in Albania, thousands of Kosovars found refuge in Albania. Some of them considered our country a temporary station to move on to the West, while others, unable to cross the border, had decided to stay in Albania. With the establishment of diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia in 1945, that government began efforts to return the Kosovars to their homeland. Initially the Albanian government refused to proceed with this issue, but after a period under Yugoslav pressure and signed obligations, it agreed to repatriate many refugees. Among those repatriated were many Kosovars who had collaborated with Albanian nationalist forces or with Yugoslav anti-communist ones. In those conditions, their return to Yugoslavia was extremely dangerous. This prompted the reaction of Western governments, especially the American one, to ensure the safeguarding of their lives. The American embassy in Belgrade gave its instructions to intervene with the Albanian government and the Yugoslav UDB. In American files there were numerous documents about the disappearance of these refugees after they were handed over.

- The totality of the Albanian political transition - Now the head of the PSSH has spent all his time trying to achieve, on the one hand, the devaluation that has lasted throughout the phase of “transition” To deny such a phrase means to step into the most slippery terrain of Albanian politics in these years, because Beria is a notion that resembles more a concept than a reality. Not that it does not exist, but rather because what it has represented in the history of our continent has been a kind of center.[?] Two eminent imperial figures mention its name; one from the last century with whom they fixed more than 89 neighbors, and the second in our century. The cause of the recent events linked to the dismantling of the opposition in Albania, at least in our most immediate imagination, continue to bring Beria to the center of attention. Our country also has a connection with Beria. At least three times, with its mediation, the fate of our country has been harshly played out. It seems that it constantly moves along the axis of Albanian political interest. Here lies one of the reasons that makes Beria an unavoidable notion of the Albanian transition. It seems that with this notion, but also with its very historical memory, our politics is trying to justify many of the present anomalies. Beria thus becomes a kind of grotesque mirror in which the ambitions, failures and follies of our elite are projected. It is no coincidence that in this context PSSH is mentioned, whose leader has now let time work in his favor, attempting to capitalize on the long exhaustion of the transition.

It was submitted [?] with the Albanian judicial authorities [???] judicial [???] again [???] and [???] of the City of Tirana. Ali [?] and [???] with [???] 1994. (Continues on page 2)

Vlora, Saranda, Skrapar, Korça, before furn.[?] not the place, the world where hatreds are located. For seven days there all governments have been settling down, there are happening events that in essence [?] are taken as an insurmountable argument. They are signals to be understood. They are clear signals. There are those who want to take advantage of the fire that has broken out to burn also “Marx’s beard”. If not for ideological reasons, then for very small motives of day-to-day politics. In essence this is a well-known way of manipulating symbols. Marx’s beard does not need to be burned because it has long since been burned in the public conscience. What is burning today are, in fact, the old wounds of a society that has still not reconciled itself with itself and with its history. (Continues on page 2)

The historical assessment of our decree is directly linked to the concept of the “degree of fire” in our political history. I have the impression that it is one of the most used metaphors of our day. In the name of this metaphor, movements and interests have been involved, powers have been disguised and alibis have been used. That is why writing about this topic cannot be just a passing comment. In this sense, the article tries to look beyond the incident. Not the physical burning of a symbol, but the cultural and political meaning of this gesture. In Albania symbols have often been used as a pretext to avoid the real debate about responsibilities, guilt and the future. Therefore “Marx’s beard” is more a figure than an object. When societies move from one system to another, they tend to produce strong symbolic signs. Some of them serve as collective therapy, others as deliberate provocations. In both cases, the fire that engulfs symbols can turn into real fires if politics fails to read these signals correctly. (Continues on page 2)

PS is PK + PP It is not worth stealing morality or defending the barbarically persecuted The press organ has denounced and has a psychological chief with the “grüjnë e femijeve” Do not be afraid. There are no more donkey spies! Infantile paradoxes of a “socialist woman” that you “left” Albanian society, a mortuary and the need for a new morality p. 6 Humour page Let the accounts be settled with Radovan Karadzic

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