FLASH
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Even the opposition politicians themselves live in luxury; with luxurious apartments and villas, but they are drawn there from the 'time of Saliu'. Saliu is now finished, he says nonsense, drowned in dementia and obsessions
I wouldn't even think about going back that far if I hadn't seen the video of the day with the will between Sali Berisha and his cousin, with the same last name.
-You, Mr. President, are manifesting the great strength that a man like you has in the face of great obstacles and conspiracies- said the younger Berisha, an ambassador during the time of the 'great one', and a former masovik at the Laç culture house.
The other one moved his leg a little on the armchair, cleared his throat, and agreed with all his being. "Yes, he said, it's true. Thank you for pointing that out to me."
The incident occurred yesterday or the day before yesterday at the occupied DP headquarters.
But I saw the same scene in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. I can't believe I haven't seen it since. Mao Zedong was dead, but thousands and millions of people filled the square to visit his sarcophagus. I was amazed by the endless line of people with flowers in their hands; the line zigzags all over the glorious square of China, as if to prove that death had been entombed there forever.
Two people from the national news agency, HSINHUA, accompanied me all those days. I told them I wanted to visit Mao.
"No," they said emphatically, as if I had said something wrong.
"We don't have it on the program," someone who cared more about phrases told me.
I pretended to obey, but as soon as I found a moment of distraction, I joined the line of people with flowers. Hours. The longer the line wound to the door of the hall where Mao was resting, the more people burst into tears; so much crying all around that you felt either 'at fault', or 'an enemy of Mao'. Great embarrassment. Maybe that was also the reason why the two companions from HSINHUA did not want me to enter; the reason that 'what does Mao want now..., with those people who come from who knows where and are now screaming in Tiananmen'.
Everything had begun the great change in China, even pulling the country out of the abyss where Mao had left it; but they were crying for Mao. Right in Tiananmen Square, Mao had proclaimed the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949, but China had entered the path of capital. Millions of people who all day long enjoyed the economic model of Teng Hsiao-Ping, an enemy of Mao; but in the evening many of them set off for the whole night towards Mao's sarcophagus.
In the large hall where Mao lay, which had been a hall of the People's Army, there were full of agents and crazy people from who knows where. The smell of sweat was so strong that you could suffocate. A big Chinese man, the biggest I had ever seen, was holding a gold watch in his hand and crying. 'Don't touch my watch - he said - don't touch me!'. The watch had Mao's image on it and was gold-plated. He bought it right there in the hall from a street vendor. He gave the other man 10 thousand dollars in 'cash'. He said he had it as a gift for his son's wedding.
"My son brought me dollars from America and I'm lucky to have bought a watch with Mao."
All of China, at that time, was in this situation: They were enjoying capitalist change, but they were keeping an eye on Mao Zedong. The Ten Hsiao Pin Complex in Shanghai was built to prove to the world that 'we have changed, what about Mao Zedong already'. Come on, tell some people!
This is what happens to many people in this world; even in our country - undoubtedly. They live modern day life, but they dream when they were sleeping in the chicken coop. Even the opposition politicians themselves live in luxury; with luxurious apartments and villas, but they are drawn there from 'Sali's time'. Sali is now finished, he talks nonsense, drowned in dementia and obsessions, gets confused with numbers and his own feet, in the meeting room he wears a miner's hat while in the mine he never enters out of fear. His friends know that they have nothing from him, but they are deceitful, they want the robbery, the mud, the disfigurement, the theft, the murder to return... There they feel like at home and in the meantime they make his grave back in place. These are the clearest about the sarcophagus. Yes, there are people who gain nothing, and even lose this life that has been built..., but still 'with Mao's clock' they sleep.
Apparently, it has happened that the country undergoes greater development than a part of society itself; these people are lagging behind, the country is moving forward. The country is entering the EU, but these people are far away; they will simply enjoy it without knowing what they are doing...
Like Mao's gold watch and the big Chinese guy with dollars from America. I'll never forget it, even more so now with the video when 'President Berisha' is waiting for his cousin, yes Berisha, in the office, and the latter praises him like a tribe.
"Yes, yes!" said Saliu. "It's true, thank you."
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