Foreign researcher finds traces of homosexuality in Albanian socialism painting

Tomasz Kamusella of St Andrew's University visited on the last days of November 2015 Albania and Kosovo, holding a set of lectures for linguistic nationalism. He also visited the Gallery of Arts in Tirana, where he was deeply impressed by a work by painter Petro Cobica (born in 1943). He thinks we have to do [...]
Here is what Kamusella writes on his impressions published by atunispotry. com?
I was surprised to see one of the paintings of unconstitutional, titled Coming to the Highs of Light (1981). It features two young workers who are supposedly installing some electric parts on a high - tension pole from which a deep valley is seen.
In the illusion created by this composition of the two men, it seems as if they were carried in the airway, they are flying high above the earth, free as angels in the dark, deep blue of the sky. The background seems to have been carried directly by an icon, which has been heretic in communist Albania. It was the only country in the world where religion (Opium of the people) was abolished in 1967, according to Marxism.
I'm surprised that sensors and political officials have failed to see this extraordinary antirevolutionary challenge presented in the painting. Even worse, from the eyes of the world, just each other in this harsh environment, the two electricalists look just a minute after a gentle hug.
The suggestion of homoerotism comes naturally from this painting, directly challenging the ideological decoration of Communism. Was the painter aware of what he did? It's lucky that the Party failed to distinguish in this masterpiece of unconstitutional a love game between gay and”.













