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Remember.al. brings the rare testimony of the famous sculptor, Agim Rada, on the popular show. R REFIM in Tv Scan, about the early friendship with his friend and colleague, Christaq Rama, who speaks kindly and otherwise of his son, Edin, who once held him close... <x0... Nothing I don't want, just let us work quiet”, expresses the rebel sculptor about the current prime minister who had once worshipped Radda and in his book “Reflexion <3>, has long written about him....

Recently on the famous show. R REFIM, author of journalist Dasnor Kalucci and moderator Albana Shehu Kyriaco, has been invited by the renowned sculptor Agim Rada, who is the author of Mitêhat Frasher's bust that settled on the hills of Lake Tirana with official ceremonies and having a harsh reaction from left segments, etc.

In addition to his story, Mr Rada has made and a brief story of his family and personal history, including the reports and relationships he has had with his colleague's friend, sculptor Kritaq Rama, as well as his son Edin, who in the '80s had Rada as an idol and in his book “Reflection <1x> has written for him and for him.

But this has not accompanied Rada, who in this show after telling about the friendship he had with Ed until 1990, has indicated that from that time until today, he has not met him at all for 30 years, nor has he even had a coffee with today's prime minister. For more information on this, and other events and stories from his life recognize interviews that we are publishing in this script carried out by the moderator, Albana Shehu.

Mr Rada, you are an old artist and sculptor with a long career of work over 45 years and your works are scattered and placed not only in the city of Tirana but in other cities throughout Albania. But what made you even more popular was this work, this bust, by Mithat Frasher, which the director is showing us and we're looking at here on the monitor...

Thank you for starting with my work and it got very good, because it was a very important event that happened with the arrival of the bones of the great patriot Mithat Frasher, and also the establishment of his bust on the lake hills alongside the Frasher brothers.

It's a job of your hands and it's been done in record time to say... and it's poured into the bronze such a job that every detail seems to have been worked with a love...

Yes... in general art has a secret we're saying or a specific one, because if you think about creating an object, a beautiful job, if you don't have love between you and what you're about to create, it'll always come up with a fake, superficial thing, one thing that doesn't say anything. I've never done things in my life I don't like and I won't want to do. I didn't even do it in my youth when he was forced to do this political figure, I've avoided giving space to my soul and freedom that I could do and create what I wanted.

We're going back to your work, but we're going back a little bit in time to your life story. You were born in Tirana...

Yes, I was born in Tiranë in 1953 in an old house, the house my father made himself after being released from prison, using pieces of metal, tins, tiles, which he found, with great difficulty taking care of us little ones there under that shelter.

You've grown up with a very problematic childhood, since your parents have removed a horse that we have to show... here's this picture of where your two parents are, a gentleman and a very good-looking lady who knows their nobility...

That's true, so my hard childhood, but I'm not one of those people to take the flag today and say I'm persecuted...! But since we were in your question about your parents, I wanted to point out that this very race, was fought by villagers down the mountain. I said somewhere that beautiful people, Communism hated them. I remember in my childhood, and then after Tirana's most beautiful girls, they were studying and fighting until being called prostitutes, only because they were beautiful. Men were also called vagabons, streetmen, gangsters, etc.

And that's why they washed, dressed well, perfumed etc., etc., and that went against the idealology of that system and was considered a crime. But before that, this happened to national intelligence, the national clergy, with all intellectuals finishing schools in the West, which in my opinion were national consciousness. All of these were imprisoned or completed exiles. If this were not to happen, so if these were not to be imprisoned and their opinion or the personality we're looking at here on the screen, so Mithat Frasher, it wouldn't be Albania as it is and as it was after the war, but it would be a very developed country.

Let's go back to your childhood and the difficulties of that time because of your father's imprisonment.

Yes, my father was unjustly imprisoned. He was anti - Communist and was condemned as such. Only in Albania did punishments and imprisonments occur, where one of the thousands was my father. After Father's imprisonment, my mother was deported to Berat, then from Berat to Tepelena, and so on as thousands and thousands of Albanian families. Since we're at this point, the exiles, the loud Tepelena these days, I take advantage of the opportunity to stop a little bit. I've heard these historians, so they say I can't call them historians.

That history cannot be called a profession, because it is more cultural. And we don't need the profession of these three beans to teach us, distorting our reality. After the time has come that if I want to know about the Pirron of Epirus or Julius Caesar, I have every chance to find out who they were. But it seems to me that not without purpose, it distorts history, distorts names, etc. I don't know if I'm allowed in this show to name names...

Of course, we don't have any problems...

Yeah, I don't see that Pascal Milon, I see a Jufin pigeon, what are some, a Guchov is called, who are out of time and with no dignity. Once you step on other people's pain and mock and mock those who were killed and massacred for nothing and call it Tepelena, “rest camp”, this minimum is not normal. I don't want the evil of man, but to have the parents of those who thought of it above, to have tried the mud of Myphaze and the snoring of Tepelene, to have the children die on the banks of the river, to have tried it, and then to talk...? Let them not only trumpet the good things that the regime has brought upon us and that is what I said not to say.

Why was your mother in those camps?

My mother, the only fault of my mother to experience those terrible camps, was that her husband was in prison, that's all. Which was by order of the neighbors, that is, to cleanse Albania of this kind of race by imprisoning and invasing them so that there could be no more national consciousness. That power didn't like these gentlemen I said before and who had finished schools in the West, that power wanted those who came down from the mountains, thrown out, and indicted. It was beautifully defined by light Agoll at the “Persert Return, where that clay oping partisan lay on the Emperor's bed and said: “Now I am Emperor, the power is mine”. And so, power was given to them. My father received a general amnesty, and from ten years after being convicted, he served four years in political prison and was released.

Have you taken the damages of the prison as long as the law...?

Absolutely not, we didn't get anything. Look, my mom is still alive at 97 and she's the first beneficiary under law, but we didn't take anything like that. They're saying no, but they're gonna have to, not look at her, etc.

Back to your childhood, when and how did your desire to draw come about?

This thing happened when I was very small and fortunately we had the house attached to the “Mihal Duri” where the barracks of sculptors and painters were. And I was forced to go over there a few times a day and as I watched them paint, I went home and I tried to do the same thing, but I was ashamed to tell them what I knew. There was Sali Shiyak, Perkli Culi, Myrteza Fuchate, Harrila Dhimo, the late man I have a special respect for, since he changed my life, and many others who loved me and approached me because they looked at me as a child who promised or loved the profession.

Did they approach you, you went into their studios?

Yes, of course, they loved me and approached me and thrilled to see my own drawing or to make a little mud sculpture. And I was often told to continue drawing to go to school in Lice. And it really helped me. I had a great teacher, Vangeli Chomera, wife of the famous writer Spiro Chomera. Zysh Vanghelia was 8th-year-old, and first-class teachers I had excellent Gjivefa Kyriaco, she dedicated it to marking my life and profession. (She was the wife of Sotir Kyriaco, a great physicist and chess teacher).

So she was the first to notice in you the talent to draw...?

But she, voice Johnovefa after seeing that I had some talent to draw, told us in front of the class: “Gim won't tell us how to sing in front of the class, but he would present it to us with drawing” And I, with those color pencils that I gave the same face, drew them, and she enjoyed bringing me to the class to praise me. And I had great pleasure.

How did you go to school when your biography was known?

Look, we've had a destiny that we've all had in our neighborhood, we've all had locals and no residents. We did very well with each other, all the families. Even President Front we had a very good husband, a god. Vladimir Shanto was named Vasil Shanto's brother. And I have school from him. Father said: How would we do that for Kim? “Don't worry”, he told his father, “we'll fix that s%b”. And really, I went and competed in Lice and I did great. But when I start school, I lose two brothers once in a while. Think about it, they were a job worker then, and under these conditions I was forced to go back to school at night and work the day to help my family and myself. I've done different jobs from the worst, slave labor...

And you were only 14-15...?

But only 14 to 15 years old and I've done work that everyone who knows me, so that I've been through different jobs, they know I'm telling the truth. I worked at Wood Equipment, loading boards, collecting the plate, having it close. Then I went to the Tull factory on Three, in Kamuz, where I pushed brick cars. A very hard job, I was a kid, and my boots were on my knee. They were rubber boots and were filled with water and mud and decay, so it was better to remain barefoot than standing on water boots. I also had an old military coat that was after my father and that dress and I tied it up. When I went, it was nice to have a bus, but when I came, there was no one, and I was forced to walk home and on the road from where my dogs came from, I kept myself from a tree that I feared not eating.
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