On the Fish

On the other hand, nationalists have made it the opposite: for them Fishha is a poet of the largest of the Albanian nation and intellectual people who faithfully served his nation until the last breath.

Today we need to see the Fish beyond these two positions, the denial of it, and the one for clobbering.
Like all intellectuals and writers, Fish could not get out of his time because, as Hegel puts it, individuals and philosophies are children of their day. People cannot get out of their time, just as they cannot get out of their skin. Fishta's work, at its core, is an effort to provide answers to the questions and dilemmas of the time in which he lived. He was a nationalist cleric who wanted to see Albanians part of Europe, as a free and emancipated nation. In this context he was troubled and wrote against all who thought they were against that purpose. Here is the source of the antislav spirit in his works, especially in Malsias' Lah. As a cultivated nationalist, Fisha understood that the struggle for territories in the Balkans took place not only on the political and military plains but also on cultural and literary plains. All Balkan peoples had established their nationalist eposs, to legitimately legitimise their territorial ambitions. The tribe wrote Malsias ' Lahat in response to these eposes. He thus became an intellectual who served his nation in cultural warfare with other nations. As an Albanian nationalist, he was attislav. As a Catholic clergyman, he was anti - Communist. These two positions made it close to fascism, which was also antislav and anti-communist. This approach will then push him towards the position of an anti-democratic and antiliberal intellectual. So the German army's entry into Paris is hailed as a fitting blow to the democracies and ideas of the French Revolution of 1789, while the figure of Mussolini and Hitler sees two human geniuses. Of course, this assessment was given to large masks performed by German Nazism and Italian fascism during World War II. Fisha herself died before the world learned of the Holocaust, while his indifference to the Jewish issue is explained by the fact that Fisha had a Catholic outlook, in which, in history, anti-Semitic semantisms have often appeared. Seen in general, this ideological movement of Fishta may be understood by the fact that Albanian nationalism was long sponsored by Austria-Hungary and itself albanology, which was part of it Fish, was a German investment product. Without Austro-Hungary and Germany, Albania in 1913 would hardly be recognised as an independent state.

Fista was convinced that the support that Albanians once received from Germany, Austria-Hungary, and, in a measure even from Italy, would get again in terms of a European rule dominated by these states. Other Albanian nationalists had the same view, and here lies the major reason why Albanian nationalism during World War II failed to turn into an anti-fascist force, which the Communists did with the help of the Yugoslav Communist Party and the Commententine (The Communist Initiative led by Stalin).

The only nationalist Albanian intellectuals who remained on the side of Western democracies at the time were Noli and Konica, and this, apparently, relates to the fact that they lived in the US. Fista and other Albanian nationalists did not draw close to fascism because they really believed in its doctrines, but because they believed that the Albanian nation would live better in a world order guided by it. This was a still mistaken assessment of Albanians, because, as noted earlier, this was used by Communists who took power and continued for another half century the drama of the Western Albanian secession, the drama with the consequences of which we continue to live to this day.