A meeting of the Political Bureau in HINA69/ Enver Hoxha's unknown word: Christaq Rama sıi has yet to prepare the drawings needed for Vlora's Monument of Independence, as he is...

At this meeting, communist Albania's leader, dictator Enver Hoxha, after speaking of foreign and Albanian literature, citing the books of these authors he had read, he has discussed and taken into analysis the works and works of several writers and artists, such as: Photo Stamo, Kristaq Rama, Aydise Paschli, Cesk Zadija of Dimitrir Shuteriqi, who were then in charge of top posts and leadership positions at the Ministry of Education-Kultur, the League of Albanian Writers and Artists, etc.

Enver Hoxha's full word at that meeting, where he stopped long for the failure of the Independence Monument in the city of Vlora, for which a group of sculptors had been established, led by Christac Rama.

I think that if this measure is taken, there will be no risk of any of them dragging their feet. We have nothing to be happy about, for example, that Christaq Rama is now the inspector in the Ministry of Education and Culture, when from the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we are not being handed over to the projekt-skica of the Monument of Independence, or that for several years we have been waiting to be presented as the drawing of the Witnesses' cemetery.
The reason why, fellow minister, he has time to deal with these huge works, which the Political Bureau, the Government and the People expect to realise. It is this sculptor, who is expected to perform these two large tasks, who has been assigned to the ministry. To perform these works is not enough for several months, much more time would be needed for each one.

Then, this is not just about a couple of things, it's about 20 and some sketches of monuments and other works that need to be prepared, which Christaqi, comes in, as responsible for these jobs, to look into and even to the nature of the earth where these monuments will be erected, to look after the stones, the base, the marble, etc., which are needed for their construction”.

So said Albania's communist leader Enver Hoxha at a meeting of the Political Bureau held on April 4, 1969, where the problems of art and culture were discussed and taken into analysis, which, among other things, he once highly appreciated the works and work of several writers and artists: Photo Stamoo, Kristaq Rama, Aydise Paschli, Cesk Zadija, Dhimiter Shuteriqi, who were assigned to leadership positions such as the Ministry of Education-Cultur, the League of Writers and Artists, etc., added that the work those artists do in those state affairs became an obstacle to their creativity, taking as an example, the renowned sculptor, Christaq Rama, who was tasked with the restoration of the Independence Monument in Vlora. More about it and everything else discussed the former communist leader of Albania at that meeting, we are familiar with the document that Memorial.al publishes for the first time...................

Enver Hoxha's discussion at the PPSH Central Committee Political Bureau meeting on April 4th 1969

The report, presented by fellow writers and artists ' leadership, is based, concrete, and reflects the true state in the field of artistic and literary creativity. Also, although your fair, collective, Marxist-Leninist opinion of literature and arts has been expressed in the report, we directly exchanged our thoughts here on these important problems that were useful and helped, because you are specialists and creators in this area.

I would like to stress, as Brother Manus (Mufti) put it, that criticism of revisionist degeneration in the field of literature and art is enhanced and deepens. The report speaks more about the degradation of literature and arts in Western literature and especially in French literature, and I think that this issue should be seen more broadly, to talk about literature and arts in revisionist countries, why they are dangerous, because there is a curious and anti-marketistic argument on issues that could harm our people the most. We are generally pleased by our writers, artists and composers, as those in the spirit of the Party make great and persistent efforts to advance literature and arts.

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Of course, flaws and weaknesses are also in these sectors, so we must constantly clear up and settle them; for this particular importance is the close cooperation of the Writers and Artists League with the Ministry of Education and Culture. It seems to me that the minister's associate that the dictatorship you are running has not been at the top of these issues, but in the discussion, I noticed you repeated many times at the address of your associates the expression: “come let's put these issues back on the line. I think that fellow writers' and artists' union, of course, will have cleared up the issues that distract them, but you, the heads of the Ministry of Education and Culture, have not been interested in the proper measure and have not been insistent on being seriously introduced and to solve problems in both directions, both in education and in culture sectors, both in technical, material problems, providing funds for the harmonic development of literature and arts, but especially in the direction of political assistance - a reason for the Ministry of Education and Culture that the competent Party is in charge of affairs and power.

You therefore have the duty to build your work in the ministry in such a way that both these important sectors, both education and culture, are given due attention to the size and weight of each. When it comes to making arrangements for the time - making technical and related to further development of culture and arts, the Ministry of Education and Culture is hesitant - even you, the minister's companion, personally, are quite frightening - you do not have the courage to place these issues with the necessary strength in Government. I repeat, it's not enough just to say: These questions”, why, as we are aware, all of this that was pointed out here by friends of the League has been relaxed, so you helped and helped specifically; this is not just about creative issues or creative permits.

When it is concluded, suppose that to advance music, another school should be established, or other funds - seeking measures should be provided, several quarts, or cadre movements, local supplements, and so on, we do not see you taking steps. Comrade Foto Stamo has put forward before the ministry the demand that local sʹkas fit to exhibit art works. Why, then, have you taken steps to meet that requirement, minister? Otherwise, it was when problems arose for schools, they were solved, and for culturally displaying the pictures of our painting, you were not interested at all, and you even called this completely unnecessary. Such problems, friends of the Ministry of Education and Culture, must look better and more at the 11th.

If the problems and demands that arise from the needs of growth are correctly judged and presented in Government, as they are setting up friends here, I am convinced that they will be considered. Now we can discuss the demands that were filed and see what we can do most in the future. I agree that creative permission will be given, and some writers will become free professions so that they can have more time for literary products. When we start writing about a problem, whether small or small, we want time, so we leave other jobs, close to the office, and write; however, it would be appropriate for the above orientation to apply to all the writers and artists. Our development every year and even every passing day is constantly getting bigger.

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More and more simple people, inspired by our reality, will continue to write, who one or more poems, others in prose, even have a doctor or another expert who will decide to write a novel or a novel. However, we cannot say that all of these became writers. On our developmental path, people who will write will mass out, some of whom may in the future become writers or novelists. I've had books written by people who are not writers. I read, for example, a novel written by a doctor about Prustin. The author treats his work more than the angle of medicine, as Prustus is known to have been ill. Although not a confirmed writer, the doctor's novel, is still very good.

It's not necessarily that an agronomist would not become a writer either. Such a specialist, apart from his work as agronomim, can also be a writer, for being close to the mass, he is inspired and put to writing not only stories, poetry, and so on. It would be a big mistake on our part if we did not encourage this massive development of literature in all genders. The party, in the first place, is tasked with caring for the quality growth of all the organisms it has created, especially the League of Writers and Artists, that this will then provide its help to all those who write and write, who tomorrow will not be as many as 300 to 400 people, but thousands.

However, I think that in the League of Writers and Artists, it is not necessary to accept as members elements that are affirmed in the release of creativity; the help that the League should provide for all this mass of people is not necessary to condition that each of these should be a member of it. The one who writes and deals with literary-artistic activities, without being a member of the League, with a well-thought job on the part of this institution can get what help it needs. So I think that in the League of Writers and Artists, those elements that stand out in the lens of literary-artistic creativity and help better organize this vast activity throughout the country. As friends and artists said, in addition to what we have today, they could become members of the organization and performers, artists and movie directors and theater directors, and so on, who are closer to writers, composers and conductors of orchestras, given that the performance artist himself is a creator.

But I think, this can be discussed, not to connect all artists, including amateurs, why that's not how it's going to be achieved to help raise the artistic and idealistic level of all the mass of those dealing with literary-artistic creative activities, whose number will always come from year to year. How the League helps the creators doesn't know in detail, but it doesn't seem to be understood directly by everyone why the writers should go to the base. We all agree on the matter, but all the shortcomings that were noted must be carefully fought. Remember that there are and there will still be difficulties to get to the base, especially for writers and artists.

Just to overcome this challenge, to work ideologically and politically so as not to develop illusions that are disfigured to humans. There are people in the circle who criticize some of the writers and artists who have been loaded, easily displaying the thought of not giving enough, reasoning that anyone has refused to admit tou fix the scenes. Circle friends are not entitled to speed up and come up with unfair conclusions for art and literature workers who are not using them properly, at a time when they are able to discuss, to give mature thoughts about problems that are shown to be partisan people. I read a piece of the attitude of an engineer who was sent to work in Stalin City, and after he had completed the term, as promised, he departed to the ministry, where he would present a thousand and one excuses, for carrying out his assigned duty, so now to return to Tirana, where he was previously.

Several workers were on the bus, leaving their families and jobs and going to work far away. Listening carefully to their engineering conversations, he realized that with high, revolutionary awareness they thought and worked, reflected and felt ashamed of themselves seeking to return to Tirana, thus repented, returned to work, and wrote about what he had thought. Citing this example, I wanted to stress that even the unpolitical education of writers and artists themselves should be given first-hand importance. Second, to also work on strengthening co-operation between experienced writers and artists and younger ones by helping them. In our country today we have schools where new and young people are taught and educated, that tomorrow will become artists, musicians, painters, sculptors, etc. But for writers, we don't have special schools.

Their work and creative activity are more limited to individual and not collective efforts. The collective work, for some reason subjectives, is avoided because, on the one hand, adents fear that others will get their ideas and, in turn, young people feel that they will, as it were, become the servants of a talented one. You know well that all great artists, starting with Michelangelo and after him, were at first the seasick of great masters. I want to ask you, friends of the League, which of the most prominent painters in our country has ever brought with them 5-10 students to cooperate closely with them about any picture that you think might create? Not one.

As I've heard, the painter, for the pictures he's first thinking about, then takes paint tools, starts and ends the work himself, without thinking of how to concreteize it in his line of measures, co-operate with 5-6 students, whether they were young or young students with talent, but without school at all (and, from what we know, many of those who have become well-known artists and painters, originally didn't have to have any place 1111). Everybody's got their own work practice, but I think it would be bad if the painter first did the drawing, which is a separate art, a big school, why before you start composing, you have to have the idea clear. This study work would teach new coworkers with whom they think well of themselves, thus creating conviction about what help they give with their ideas.

In each picture, the painter tries to concreteize an idea, thus throwing the idea at new associates, encourages them to discuss it, and the shared beating of thoughts eventually fixes the background of the picture. The processing of fellow workers also gives them help as the master hangs on their heads, instructs, corrects, instructs, and opinions until the figure reaches the level where paint should be given. The master carefully follows the whole process, disputes which part is most beautiful and complete, then the job is finally given the last hand. The same path, I think, should be followed for work on sculpture, musical works, and so on. Even the writer before writing the novel, why not call a circle of colleagues and discuss the idea of the work he will weave in order to present it as fully as possible?

But in practice it does not do so, neither do writers agree before the work is started, but how difficult it is to carry out possible remarks. If any of the conversationators from such prosecution can absorb and exploit the author's thinking, let him use it, the one who tries to copy and live with the «and loan» cannot go long, the prokob. The work of the Headship of the League and its tributaries in circles, or other branches that may be created where we still do not have, is of great importance to these. It should be considered on how to organize these meetings, how to ensure the most productive cooperation, and how best to help our literature and art workers to develop these sectors.

As for some well-known writers and artists, I think it's not good to be held in offices, but to be placed in a free profession. I talked about it with Comrade Ramiz. Friends like Christaq Rama, Aydise Paschli, Cesk Zadija, Dhimiter Schuteriqi, and other workers, skilled and associated with the Party, whom we have led to leadership positions in the ministry or other central institutions of art and culture, to give more in the realm of their creativity, it would be better to be released into a free profession. I think if this is taken, there will be no risk of any of them dragging their feet. We have nothing to be happy about, for example, that Christaq Rama is now the inspector in the Ministry of Education and Culture, when from the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we are not being handed over to the projekt-skica of the Monument of Independence, or that for several years we have been waiting to be presented as the drawing of the Witnesses' cemetery.

The reason why, fellow minister, he has time to deal with these huge works, which the Political Bureau, the Government and the People expect to realise. It is this sculptor, who is expected to perform these two large tasks, who has been assigned to the ministry. To perform these works is not enough for several months, much more time would be needed for each one. Then, this is not just about a couple of things, but about 20 and some sketches of monuments and other works to be prepared, about which Christaqi, comes, as responsible for these jobs, to look into and study the nature of the earth where these monuments will be erected, to look after the stones, the base, the marble, etc., which are needed for their construction. How, then, can such time - consuming monument works be done when he is also tasked with having the inspector in the dictatorship with a thousand and a daily administrative work nailed to the country?

People like this should only be assigned a major task, otherwise he can't do anything. To replace him with Minister Christaq Rama, let another framework be found, there is only one with the horizon, with good political and ideological level, and, in general, to know more or less what art and culture are. Talent people don't have to take the lead in administrative sectors, so I think we should review the matter. Even in the music field, three to four best friends should be relieved of other jobs, because music is normal to stay in place or move forward slowly and difficultly. Who are friends to be released in a free profession, this is a problem that should be seriously and planned, not liberally, not even sectarian. Of course, by turning such quadroths away from such sectors, their absence will be felt for some time until other friends who will replace them to rise to their former level.

Walking this way, I think it will help to develop literary-artistic creativity in our country faster. As many as such dolls as can be released, this should be considered one for one, but none of them will remember that he is allowed to dream only by letting him go a free profession. With those who have dreams, in the worst sense of this word, let's be tighter. For the Vlora Independence Monument, for example, there is reason to procrastinate, those who will take up this work are under obligation to complete it by the appointed time. The remarks of friends who discussed it are right. The Ministry of Education and Culture will be more persistent in solving problems, but even fellow writers and artists should be more cautious in their demands and insist when they are convinced that they are right to their requests.

Work in the field of literature and art is doing well, and we are convinced that it will do better in the future. The 1st Congress to be made will yield results, its consequences will be great throughout the development of culture and arts in our country. I think that in this case, the press should write more about your work and your convention. These days you writers and artists themselves attacked newspapers with other articles and materials so that they too can help prepare opinions in our country so that the convention can be met with great enthusiasm. We wish you well at work and we wish you well. We thank you for the good work you've done. /Remember. al