4 minutes ago27 years since Enver Hoxha's bust
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)In Albania today, they remember the day of the fall of Enver Hoxha's bust, 27 years ago in the capital city. Thousands of citizens rose on February 20, 1991, to break down the symbol of communism, a few months after the old regime living in its last days allowed political pluralism. Fall [...]
Thousands of citizens rose on February 20, 1991, to break down the symbol of communism, a few months after the old regime living in its last days allowed political pluralism.
The collapse of Hoxha's bust was prompted by hunger strikes undertaken by several hundred students to remove his name from the university.
February 20th is now designated a national memory day for martyrs and victims of the communist regime. It actually marked the end of the dictatorship in Albania.
Images of those events, in “Square Skenderbej” took the world's lap and once again put Albania in focus of international developments.
The collapse of dictator Enver Hoxha's bust would also mark the breakup with the past and the beginning of a new era, that of democracy.
