FLASH
Shkruar nga Artur Ajazi
It seems unlikely that the resurgence of the right wing in post-communist Albania is 35 years away.
The disappearance of large families during the 45 years of communism seems to have also disappeared the real right in Albania. Gone are pure, educated, Western-trained names, who after coming to Albania from their studies over 85 years ago, naturally created the right-wing stratum. At that time (during the Zog period) we had large, medium and small merchants. The war years from 1939 to 1945 were “killer” for the Albanian right. It did not show its impartiality, did not support anti-fascism, and stayed away from the majority, the people.
The Communists found it very easy to subjugate, exploit, and create the perception that “they were the evil of this country”. In the strategy of the war against the right in Albania, the Communist Party had its “bed” ready after the victory of power on November 29, 1944. It started with nationalizations, denigrations, unmaskings, arrests, murders. It seemed as if the great battle among Albanians had begun. Offices, institutions, and high and middle positions were seized by those who “came from the mountains”. Until 1957, those who had once been labeled as the “right-wing stratum” were maximally and brutally exploited.
Those who had property and wealth, education and a European mentality, because they had received everything they needed there to make Albania. But they did not succeed, neither theoretically nor practically. Perhaps the only person who could have strongly supported them would have been King Zog, but he fled, leaving both the country and the right in the hands of the communists. And the latter did their duty properly. By 1971, over 2,200 intellectuals had disappeared, arrested, killed and interned, and there were even those who had aspired after 29.11.1944 that they would "compete with their right-wing Europeanist parties and ideas against the CPSU". What naivety.
All of them were physically or intellectually denigrated. But like everything, communism had its end. 1992 had come, communism had collapsed, but there was not a single right-winger left alive. Their descendants remained, but completely incapable of reviving right-wing ideas and programs, or of representing their large families with dignity. The arrival of the former communist Sali Berisha at the head of the DP was initially seen as a “long-term solution”, but again the descendants of the right in Albania were wrong. They were mistreated and denigrated by the DP and Berisha, just as the AKP and Enver did with their families. Today, in the DP, there is not even a single right-winger.
All of them, starting with Berisha, do not represent the right at all. They are former communists, their sons and relatives, or even suckers of former security forces. The left defeated, and continues to defeat the right. Berisha was, like a "curse" for the revival of the right in Albania. Today, the right in Albania is represented by a mini-party without any political weight, like that of Dash Shehi, or any other. Mission accomplished. It seems unlikely that the revival of the right in post-communist Albania for 35 years is possible.
Perhaps here we should seek the solution to many problems and those "groans" that politics and Albanians are not sharing even after 3 and a half decades of transition, like nowhere else in Post-Communist Europe.
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