17 minutes ago29 years since Enver Hoxha fell
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)In Albania today, they remember the September fall day of Enver Hoxha, 29 years ago in the centre of the capital. 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 [...]
In Albania today, they remember the September fall day of Enver Hoxha, 29 years ago in the centre of the capital.
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 September fall of Hoxha was prompted by hunger strikes undertaken by several hundred students to remove the university's name. February 20th has now been designated 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 September collapse of dictator Enver Hoxha's September would also mark the rift with the past and the beginning of a new, democracy epic.
