By ARMAND PLAKA The new generation of historians and the need to reconceptualize historical journalism!
DOSSIER DO THE ICONS OF NAZISM STILL SURVIVE IN ALBANIA?! The Nazi flag photographed in 2014 at Kuz Baba in Vlorë, a relic in a ruined house BY ARMAND PLAKA PAGE 20
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TIRANA ARMAND PLAKA What was the state of the Albanian army in the early 1950s of the last century? Could it be assessed as... Pages 18-19
STUDY Amnesty International ALBANIA POLITICAL IMPRISONMENT AND THE LAW The Spaç Revolt, how “Amnesty International” was prevented from learning about the killings BY ARMAND PLAKA ▸ PAGES 12-13
DOSSIER The cult of the individual under President Zog! The verses of a march composed for him BY ARMAND PLAKA ► PAGE 14
MOSAIO The propaganda of the occupying neighbors illustrated in Prince Danilo’s proclamation Inside: Pyramid-library, the perfect solution: Primo Shllaku’s Pentagram MOSAIO The propaganda of the occupying neighbors illustrated in Prince Danilo’s proclamation In 1913, the Monteneg
MOSAIO The propaganda of the occupying neighbors illustrated in Prince Danilo’s proclamation Montenegrins in 1913: Shkodër people, we will free you! Inside: Pyramid-library, a perfect solution. The pentagram of Primo Shllaku By ARMAND PLAKA I was very pleased when I saw that in m
MILOSAO History, photo of scholarship holders at hotel “Dajti” before departing for Vienna When Albanians studied with Reich scholarships Inside: The Theatre Dilemma by Ben Andoni. Solzhenitsyn by Kujtim Morina By ARMAND PLAKA Today it seems something normal, perhaps quite natura
1952 REPORT CIA: Bulgarians are colonizing Albania They wear Soviet uniforms and hide their identity well IN PHOTO: Enver Hoxha speaking at Stalin’s 70th birthday, 1949 TIRANE ARMAND PLAKA The enslavement of Albania is continuing at full speed, although most of the Albanian peopl
Berisha’s diplomat against Teuta Hoxha Bashkim Trenova: She pretended to work and did not even come to the Archive for her salary TIRANA Armand Plaka “During the 8 years I stayed in this institution, she was seen there no more than 8-18 times. When you happened to see her, to...”
Professor Gazmend Shpuza revisits the ideas of Vaso Pasha in the 19th century MILOSAO Is there really a theory of “Greater Albania”? Inside: The pro and con theatre, by Ben Andoni. Dossier by Armand Plaka By GAZMEND SHPUZA Lately in the Balkans, in Athens and Belgrade, and even i
“My sick conscience did not let me see the mistakes I made” THE ARCHIVE LETTER IN NOVEMBER 1974 TIRANE ARMAND PLAKA Everything seems to have started with some friction that Balluku had had with his subordinate, Petrit Dume, and ended with a ruthless execution. He was accused of b
DOCUMENT / KRISTO NIKOLLA The testimony of the Albanian who fled to Greece in 1949 TIRANE Armand Plaka He recalls that Major Axhem Radhima, head of Enver Hoxha’s bodyguards, stood very close to him with the pistol at his head and was like a hawk, throughout the whole process unti
LETTER OF ’74 FOR THE DICTATOR Balluku to Enver: I did not make a mistake with the army “Mehmet Shehu was more capable than me. I was under bourgeois influence” TIRANA ARMAND PLAKA In the first part of the letter published for the first time by the former Minister of Defence Beqi
EXCLUSIVE / DOSSIER Balluku, to Enver: Hysniu knew the theses The 1974 letter, Dume did not accept the new materials for the army TIRANA ARMAND PLAKA In the third part of the letter from the former Albanian Minister of Defense, Beqir Balluku, it is written that they took his and
RESEARCHER YLLI POLOVINA “Mehmet Shehu had been sentenced to death” The decision was made after Hoxha’s heart attack in 1973. Ramiz Alia won TIRANA ARMAND PLAKA In the previous issue we began this long interview with researcher Ylli Polovina, who first focused on the tendencies s