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Rilindja Demokratike

E MERKURE 21 SHKURT 1996

Our great test before freedom

Message from President Berisha on the occasion of 20 February It is a very important event for me as President of the Republic and a special honor to take part in this event dedicated to the anniversary of the fall of the monument of the Albanian dictator, an event which irreversibly marks the end of the communist regime in Albania. The toppling of the monument of the dictator Enver Hoxha in the center of Tirana was first and foremost an act of courage and manliness by our students, the Albanian youth and the citizens of Tirana. 20 February 1991 was the day of the strongest and most determined protest by Albanians against the communist dictatorship and its symbols. 20 February 1991 marked the great break of Albanians with the communist dictatorship and its symbols, their break with the fear and terror of that dictatorship. 20 February brought an end to the dictatorship of monuments in Albania. In fact, it marked the greatest political, moral and psychological collapse of the communist dictatorship in our country. 20 February was the day when Albanians first won in their minds and souls the freedom that had been denied for five decades in a row. If 8 December 1990, the student movement, was the call to freedom, 20 February was its test. It proved that the patriotism and courage of our students and young people, of hundreds and thousands of citizens of Tirana, overcame the fear sown by communist barbarity in Albania, nourished for decades by the cults of monuments and its bunkers. Today I feel it necessary to bow with the greatest respect before our students, before the brave young people and citizens who, with their determination, managed to topple the monument of dictator Hoxha, the monument of the fiercest enemy of the freedom of Albanians. Glory to those who toppled the monument of the dictator and opened the way for a free Albania in the hearts and minds of Albanians. Let us and future generations remember 20 February with the most rightful pride. This day is an immortal part of the history of Albanian freedom. Let us also be aware that this great act of civic courage and daring was also a great lesson for us. It taught us that there is no system, regime, dictatorship, monument, cult of personality or bunker that can withstand the courage and determination of a free youth and a free people. It showed that the resistance of free people to oppression and its symbols is unbreakable. 20 February is a permanent call for us to defend freedom from any threat, to not allow the return of fear, repression and the myths of dictatorship. If Albania today is moving toward Europe and the free world, its moral foundations also lie in 20 February 1991. This event remains a reference point for Albanian democracy and for our belief that freedom is won, defended and deserved every day. p. 2
Enver Hoxha Shqipëri Tiranë Europë

20 February - a day of mourning for the head of the PS

Interview with the Organizational Secretary of the PD, Prof. Dr. Ylli Vejsiu Many of them, who today shed crocodile tears for the PS, as long as they are not left scattered and swollen in orgies, are those who passed through, that class of criminals whom the megaphone of propaganda has identified with the spokesmen of the PPSH, dissidents of the PS. Yet no sooner are they given a place on the list of deputies or in the names of the political staff than they remember the speeches from the time of Piter Arbnori, that on 20 February 1991 the PS, deformed by the former leadership of the PPSH, was killing it with silence and with the helplessness of responsibility, while today it flaunts it and paradoxically has turned it into a day of mourning, trying to denigrate it and move it into the schemes of its propaganda. As with all the anti-national acts of the left, today more than ever, 20 February 1991 remains an undying source of pride for Albanian democracy and a moral condemnation of the heirs of dictatorship. p.3
Ylli Vejsiu Piter Arbnori Shqipëri

Sofokli Lazri runs the PS house

The Red Front of propaganda is created Among this gallery of names known with a Bolshevik bluntness, former great and small replacements of the Hoxha regime, with the Dictator's name in the foreground, are also included offspring of the PPSH in power such as Niko Hyka, Vullneti, Argita, Spartaku [?], Jani Tozaj, Main Zoto, Këso Veloi [?] and others; pseudo-artists used for years as the rifle of the Party of Labour in the propaganda that was meant to support the movements of the Red Front of propaganda will apparently also have new names. p.3
Niko Hyka Vullneti Argita Spartaku [?] Jani Tozaj

PS fuels bloodshed in Kosovo too

In exchange for Serbia The first Albanian editor of the magazine and Albania's chef in the well-known American newspaper “The New York Times”, Ian F. Pasllali declares that in 1991, “With the decisions of the Democratic Party led by President Berisha, we sent to Kosovo 65 thousand tons of food, blankets and medicines, 20 tons of drugs, etc.” Their handover was made at the border with Serbia. Pasllali explained that 20 February 1991 helped him and all Albanians rise up against a criminal and anti-national regime. “The Albanians of Kosovo watched and experienced the Tirana 20 February with attention. Yet the same people who helped Kosovo at that time and brought aid to Albania, a few months ago wanted to stop vehicles from entering Tirana with aid for Kosovo. Then demonstrations broke out in Tirana against aid for Kosovo. This helped Milosevic,” Pasllali adds. p.3 Dokaj i pareq shqiptar i revistës dhe shefkuzhinier per Borja i pareq shqiptari i revistës dhe shefpnet per 1.3 Pasqero
Ian F. Pasllali Enver Hoxha Millosheviç Kosovë Serbia Shqipëri Tiranë