Albanians in the Balkans and Sali Berisha

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When the fathers of the nation founded the Albanian state, very few citizens of our country knew how to read and write. The empire in which we survived for five centuries fell, meanwhile, our little country managed to survive - and with the help of the United States - preserved its state-forming and identity core. It was the time of the First World War, where the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, (Yugoslavia) and Czechoslovakia emerged as nation states, emerging from the ruins of the Habsburg Empire. The elites of these countries had convinced the Great Powers that they should be accepted as allies at the Paris Peace Conference (1919-1920), and thus they were recognized internationally. This is how the so-called Czechoslovakism and Yugoslavianism was born, a kind of synthetic ideology aimed at homogenization, over the ethnic diversity and different nationalities within the states.

We Albanians remained crippled and Cambodia WhatsApp Number Data unprotected by the waves of two world wars, but also under a permanent aggression from Yugoslavia, which this time came through communism. The terrorist Enver Hoxha committed systemic murders against the Albanian elite for 45 years, a crime that exceeds even the massacres of the Russians against the Poles (Katyn Massacre - May, June 1940). The Second World War divided the world in two, while Albanians across the border were plunged into an era of rampant violence and propaganda. We Albanians experienced a drama and two tragedies - the drama was communism - while the tragedies were Yugoslavianism and Enverism. Like rarely any other nation in Europe and the world, we experienced state violence and terror - in Albania by Enver Hoxha and in Kosovo by Serbia, within Yugoslavia.



The fall of communism was the beginning of the solution of the Albanian issue, but also the final return to the universal values ​​of human rights. Albanian citizens in Albania would no longer be killed for cultural, ethnic, religious or political reasons, while Kosovo Albanians were moving towards national freedom. Read also: No Content Available Sali Berisha in Albania and Ibrahim Rugova in Kosovo were the two Albanian leaders who spearheaded these developments - undoubtedly the most important since World War II. If Rugova in Kosovo was building the national resistance against an enemy state like Serbia, in Tirana Sali Berisha was establishing the Democratic Party of Albania in the most dictatorial state in Europe.