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The whole scene was a great sadness when you consider that those gathered there wanted to imitate December 8, 1990.
About 30 people had gathered in front of the Prime Minister's Office to commemorate December 8, 2025. At first, a young man who seemed to have problems with normal thinking came out and tried to shout. No one applauded. Then he took the shouting a step higher. Still no one moved from his seat. Then he lowered his voice a little and shouted that this is Sali Berisha's party.
After that, two or three rounds of applause were heard and he got down, to make way for someone else who forgot why he had come up to speak, apologized and sat down again.
In the end, a little girl came out and gave the big news that the US had changed, the EU had changed, so the DP would win. It was a perfect excuse for why the DP should not change for these 35 years, but should wait for the US and the EU to change.
Then the camera focused on the boulevard, on the crowd of 30 people. In a corner, as if shy, was Salianji with two women, clearly separated from the other 28 people. Then someone spoke to him and he greeted him. Then another approached and shook his hand. The others did not interfere in this hostile activity.
The whole scene was a great sadness when you consider that those gathered there wanted to imitate December 8, 1990.
If someone had gone there with their grandson or a teenage child and told them that we were commemorating December 8, the children would probably think that December 8 was a tragedy and is commemorated with sadness and pain.
In truth, December 8 is a day of victories in our history. At the very least, it is a day that marks the end of a regime and Albania's entry into the difficult test of democracy and pluralism.
December 8, 1990 is a day when the young rose up against the old, while December 8, 2025 is a day when the old man who took the baby born on December 8, 1990 hostage, is against the young.
December 8, 1990 is a day when political freedom won over fear within the Labor Party, while December 8, 2025, is the day when fear within the Democratic Party won over the freedom to speak or shake hands with even a modest critic of Berisha.
December 8, 1990 is the day when children turned on their parents, for their fears about the future, while December 8, 2025 is the day when young people cannot turn on their parents, nor on themselves, but expect their parents to save their future.
December 8, 1990 was the day when the regime's opponents killed the fear of the past, while December 8, 2025 is the day when the opponents cannot kill the fear of their president.
I am not comparing the figures with the 30 people on the boulevard today, not counting those with mental disabilities. But I want to emphasize that no one has the right to celebrate December 8 as a day of mourning, as a funeral, and to identify it with their own failure. December 8 was not made by the Democratic Party; December 8 made the Democratic Party.
Now, after 35 years, the DP can mourn its fate, but not December 8. It does not have to identify its misfortune with December 8. This is a day that commemorates the courage of the young. In today's politics, the courage of the young has died. But for this reason, December 8 is worth remembering, even if only as a tribute to the courage that has died.
It is a day that should be protected by law and state protocol as a day of victors. It is not a day when the living dead gather in front of the Prime Minister's Office in the hope of being resurrected.
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