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What you see in the case of Rama, Berisha and Meta, when they were out of custody, is that they are surrounded by blind followers, obedient civil servants who do not respect professional ethics.
There is an almost iconic photo, where Enver Hoxha asks or argues about something with prof. Eqrem Chabejn. The latter's answer with a raised hand is patently clear for the denial: No. It can't! Not in the literal sense, but whoever confronts that picture understands a human dimension of the well-known personality of historical linguistics and above all respect for the ethics of the profession.
"When we killed them...", an interlocutor says to our great poet Lasgush Poradeci in one place, bearing on himself one thing, very personal, related to the persecution. Yes, the list is a long one, but not enough to include everyone. The two personalities mentioned above were truly rare characters of the time. Another part that showed dignity and especially moral and professional ethics ended badly.
Musine Kokalari would experience the lynching of the crowd and the excitement of the prosecutors, who would alienate his life at that time. In a case with more "simple" characters, you can look at the public's approach. The story was told to the author of these lines by Uran Butka, when the mother together with a group of ordinary women would participate in a meeting of the Front at "Nacional". As soon as the wife of Safet Butka, Ball's personality, was spotted in the crowd, they asked her to leave.
The woman did not come out, because she had to stay and insisted that it would be all the women who would leave behind her and out of respect for their friend. Today, these simple acts have disappeared. The protagonism of many kinsmen of that time and anathema to every segment of the communist past does not allow to judge calmly or even more to show respect for those citizens, peasants, intellectuals who resisted communism, thanks also professional or moral ethics.
Why did we make this long introduction?! When the public is faced with political leaders who lead the country down a dead end or autocratic figures, an example very related to the Balkans and our country, then comes the moment when resistance is required from a kind of professional commitment or work ethic. What you see in the case of Rama, Berisha and Meta, when they were out of custody, is that they are surrounded by blind followers, obedient civil servants who do not respect professional ethics.
The case of post-war Albania and the people who were convinced to serve the new regime were an example and a foreshadowing of what was to come. So, as a part of the eyes they were not understanding properly or rather scared by the ferocity of the regime they were serving beyond their professional commitment and ethics.
It is difficult and seems "far-fetched" what many jurists did after the Second War in Albania, punishing anyone who faced them harshly?! In various letters of the militants of that time, an enthusiasm for the War on Religion appears, and many times more than the regime itself was imposing. Like many others in the race to "give ideas" for the success of the collectivization, which led the Albanian village to ruin.
In short, when commitment and professional ethics were required, the Albanian individual made mistakes many times, serving the regime. There are rare justifications of the personalities of the time such as the convicted former Minister of Culture and Education Thoma Deliana or Kahreman Ylli for not passing goals and serving as shock absorbers.
However, the head-down of a large part of the contemporary intellectuals, the competition to serve and to catch the eye of the Bureau caused the country so many problems. Above all, he created the Albanian personality that bends and takes any shape. For the sake of truth, you can't ask only the Albanians. Historian Timothy Snyder, from where we are getting the idea of this article, also connects the phenomenon with Germany, the country of the most famous philosophers of modern times.
He cites the case of Hitler's lawyer, Hans Frank, who "claimed that the law was intended to serve race, and so it seemed a good thing that race should be made law!" A few years later, German doctors would do terrible experiments in concentration camps, while well-known German businessmen and companies (some still alive today) mercilessly exploited the labor of internees and prisoners.
In Albania, the law was linked to the doctrine of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, which in Marxist socio-political thought referred to a state where the proletariat or working class has complete control of political power. The term was invented by Jozef Weydemeyer and was taken by the founders of Marxism, Karl Marx and Frederik Engels in the 19th century to transform terribly in the USSR under the leadership of Stalin, while in Albania it was confused, thanks to the lack of professional ethics of many people. Such a social experiment had terrible consequences, but the post-90 times are really showing us that the phenomenon is alive in another form: the employees and many individuals do not have the professional ethics to face it from the first moments of evil, corruption and especially the direction without logic, where quite a bit of the country is being run.
Back in history again: "If judges had followed the rule that there can be no execution without trial, if doctors had followed the rule that there could be no surgery without consent, if businessmen had supported the prohibition of slavery, if bureaucrats had refused to deal with documentary work involving murder, then the Nazi regime might have had much more difficulty carrying out the crimes it is remembered for," Snyder writes.
And, again, the professions will be able to create forms of ethical conversations, which are impossible to carry out between a solitary individual and a distant government, we continue the logic of the historian, which means that it is the first barrier of a wrong direction. Professional ethics is what Albania needs today, which e.g. the characters who directed the mortgage should not make people's lives worse, after decades when everything and a part was taken from them, they are now sleeping eternally without taking the properties, but to coldly and purely respect the law.
Judges need professional ethics to help the Albanians who are in front of them, to give them the right justice and not to lead them to the calendar. Professional ethics can make doctors not look at the patient as a client and play cynically with health. The Rama administration needs professional ethics today to say no to some of his orders, which are excessive; respect for meritocracy; or that cannot be used for election.
When they confuse professional ethics with the emotions that come from blind obedience, then the moment follows, when a part of them find themselves "saying or doing things that they previously thought unimaginable", Snyder comes to our aid. The fear of SPAK has shaken a significant part, but again respect for dignity and ethics is still far away.
Therefore, in Albania the power of Rama and Berisha is so immeasurable, because people do not properly respect their dignity vis-à-vis the power. Human dignity includes honoring, respecting and protecting each person as a free being with a unique history. Human dignity is not related to social status, nor to physical or intellectual performance, the literature says. That's it, it's enough to understand that: professional ethics can be the first barrier of evil and those in power, who can't get enough of power. Çabej's case once showed openly, like Musine Kokalari, or Zef Mala, two personalities, among many others, who enlighten us with their sad fate but also with their great dignity.
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