Albania During Last Days of Communism - 1990
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- Gege, Kosova, Albania, Shqiptar, Malsor, Kosova, Shkodra, Besa, Burrnia, Mikpritja, Albanian, Qifteli, Lahuta, Malsia, Hoti, Gruda, Kelmandi, Trieshi, Kastrati, Shkreli, (Koja) Goja e Kucit, Plav e Guci, Shala, Shllaku, Shoshi, Dukagjini, Mehmet Shpendi, Pulti, Puka, Mirdita, Mazreku, Dushmani, Toplana, Plani, Xhani, Suma, Kiri, Cun Mula, Baca Kurti, Ded Gjo Luli, Nosh Luci, Prek Cali, Malot Gjeka, Gjelosh Gjoka, Marash Dashi, Pretash Zeka, Malesia Madhe 7 Malet te Malsis, Mark Milani, NikajMertur, Sokol Ndue Martini, boletini, Burrni, Trimi, Lezha, Zadrime, Boga, Theth, Tropoja ,Rrafshi I Dukagjinit, Gjergj Fishta, Lulgjuraj Zef Leka
The most unbiased documentary about 80s Albania one can ever ask for. A true gem. Saying "the producers made an outstanding job" is quite an understatement.
You’re kidding right? These are actors. 😂
How is this accurate ? The partisans liberated Albania? And no ally fought in Albania ? Then what army was the one that pushed back Mussolini and his army all the way up to Tepeleni?
12 min in to the documentary and it’s not accurate. Let’s hope it gets better.
@@buseinib
Took the words right out of my mouth. Refreshing change from the usual 'Hoxha was a lunatic, look how poor they are' etc
I was in Albania for a few days last week , wish I’d seen this before . Very moving to hear the intelligent comment of all the Albanians here but especially the youth
Do you think that the North Korean description of North Korea is accurate? The same goes for this.
@@durimmiziraj4815 yes I realize that they have been brainwashed to some degree but I’m still moved by their optimism and excellent English
@@patrickkelly9110"Brainwashed to some degree" does not explain what these people have been put through. No Albanians at that time had any real knowledge of the outside world. That girl that spoke so eloquently has never tasted a banana, nor eaten chocolate or a pineapple. She has never had anything that was not produced in Albania. She has never seen or heard anything from the outside world that was not been funneled through some of the finest censorship filters the world has ever seen. When these people became free, it was as if they had landed in the Balkans on a spaceship from another world.
@@patrickkelly9110 Lets say that someone is keeping you hostage with a gun to your head telling you that you are happy and that you have to tell the rest of the world you are happy. How would you yourself view someone with the comment you made going through such horror.
No one escapes NATO in the end. Good try though 🇦🇱! Lots of love from your neighbours in 🇬🇷
Love from Albania🇦🇱🇬🇷
ka patur kjo kohë e historisë së Shqipërisë shumë gjëra qê i kujtojmê me nostalgji.
Albania gave the middle finger to the world for years. Hats off!
And pushed it up our behinds till our hats came off
And look how good it worked out for them....
unfortunetly it gave the same middle to itself as well
And its own citizens
very good documentary. Thank you for posting.
This is such an interesting historical documentary. Thanks for sharing
Connor, I have seen just the beginning, thanks for suggesting it to me... but it is totally fabricated. The student and the teacher either are pre-selected by the secret police, or they belong to the "blloku" meaning internal circle of Politbureau. The miner, the same way... actually since grade school at 6 or 7 years we were taught by teachers not to approach or allow foreigners to take pictures of us, but to turn our backs at them. Later on, we were told by teachers, or commissars how to recite, how beautiful our country is, and how much we love independence, and how much we loved the party and comrade E***. Many were brainwashed not only at school but by their own families. WE were not prosecuted in the full sense, as many people were in Albania, but my parents never told me to "love the communist party" - believe it or not, there were parents who told their kids to love the party more then themselves or the parents. .. but my parents always advised me to be careful when I speak, as I might get in trouble. I was a student in 1990/1991 and my parents begged me not to be in the front row when I joined the student demonstrations for democracy. This video here seems like a pure communist propaganda, as it was taken from the infamous TVSH of the time; it says there that the street were quiet... of course they were, for 47 years Albanian streets were quiet, communists took care of that; July 2nd, 1990 saw thousands of Albanians jumping over the fences of foreign embassies - we as students were forcefully sent back home to the towns we came from. Some of my friends who were Able to stay in Tirana joined the crowd and entered foreign embassies - first time ever that communist government gave up and allowed those who "deserted" communist Albania to be rescued by the government of each embassy. My elderly grandfather who had seen communist come to power in 1944 said, this is it - communism is is its last days in Albania.
The communist propaganda at that time was just like in this video - Albania is not like other East European countries - in a sense yes - because we were the only staunch Stalinist barbed wire forced labor camp of all. Albania was controlled by the secret police (sigurimi) to the smallest cellule; there were so many secret agents all over, at any level, plus you had the volunteers who would spy for free, and some semi- volunteers who were paid a small stipend to help their families in exchange for spying. My uncle was beaten by the secret police for not accepting to be one of them.
@@hks4133 I am looking to try to buy an Albania propaganda poster from the years of socialism. R they difficult to purchase or readily available. Thanks
@@conorowens5805 I guess there should be some left at a publishing house that was run by communist party until 1990s; and also the "Kinostudio" Albanian film production should have plenty in their storage. I do not live in Albania, otherwise I could have found a few for you. See if you can find Albanian people in online forums, they should be able to to help. I guess those posters should be really cheap even if you buy them from an "antiques" store. Good luck.
@@hks4133 Hi, can you help identify the song playing at 1:02:06? Politics aside, I really enjoyed the overall aesthetic quality of this doc including the fine selection of Albanian folk and pop songs.
@@arnebaert923 That is an Instrumental with Clarinet (kaba me klarinete) there are several variants, some happy and some somber like this one here.... it is from the times of Ottoman Empire when the Turks would take away boys from Albanian families and use them as soldiers wherever they needed them in the vast ends of the Empire. (At least I believe that's the tune)... there is a similar version of the melody with text... also you can check "kaba e gjeneral gramafoni" - it could be that; Eli Fara has a song "qeraxhiu i grebenese", similar.
Kur sheh sot që ka gjith këto materiale më shumë se atëherë jo vetëm në shqipëri,
Në realitet ka më tepër plehra se atëherë.
Brravo Zef per ket video flm shum
Must tell you im from serbia and i love to visit that country.good people i met there.yes its poor country with good people in general
why is serbia more rich than albania same shit all around 😂
Albania is not a poor country nowdays is a middle income country just like the rest of balkans is 2024 not 1984
*upper-middle income according to the World Bank, just like Serbia.
Patriotët i mori lumi........
Rrofte Shqiperia ❤️ dhe shqiptarët e vertete!!!! USA 🇺🇸 ❤
USA? 😂
@@mirlindthedon 🇺🇸 ❤️🇦🇱❤️
Good documentary
A lot of important subjects were left out
Is the lady still alive, would live to her from her
Was this made in 1988 or is the upload title wrong? "During the first weeks of 1990 ..." (3:52)
Title wrong will be fixing it soon
this was made early 1990
@@tony232cool it had to be right before the crash of Romania
This program or documentarie was made by Poul Jay and is not by Zef Leka as it said on the screen.
Would you like me to take it down it’s no problem I was using a program and my name was put there bc of the account I have
@@ZefLeka No is fine nise to known
Curious that the film doesn’t mention the 700,000 bunkers that Hoxha built when those resources could have been used for apartments and infrastructure.
That was a top secret thing at that time. Every foreign journalist was accompanied by the Sigurimi officers and their travel around cities were planed.
PS: The total number of bunkers (of all types and formations) were around 170,000.
UK's ITV had a program called First Tuesday. It aired a portrait of post-Hoxha Albania, at about the same time as this. The footage may have been Dutch in origin? I have not been able to find it anywhere. If you have links, please share. The FT footage was not as infected with propaganda as this effort.
czcams.com/video/yZD1jaKbz2g/video.html
First Tuesday's item was based on a Catalan television report. The version shown on First Tuesday even went to the trouble of cutting out either anything attractive or glamorous (such as some women at the wedding party who were wearing make-up, jewellery and colourful clothing), or people enjoying themselves (such as the elderly men drinking coffee at a cafe), to show Albania in the dreariest possible way
@@radioandtvmemories6178 The wedding showed a bride and groom devoid of passion, joy and life. For me that's the most haunting thing about this footage.
I an very grateful for the upload.
czcams.com/video/yZD1jaKbz2g/video.html Here it is!
@@rael2915 Thank you.
Im ALBANIAN born i. Australia the first time i went to Albanian was in 1989 .was my first time iver seas i was 8 yrs old going to what was JUGOSLAVIA .MY famiky is Albanian byt we are from wat jugoslavia montenegro .anyways while we were there the birder had been opened between.jugoslavia and albania for public in i think 30 years.ny father being albanian and never been there and had family hadnt seen in 30 + years we wnet it was only by tour bus and I remember most of the 5 days well being 8 yrs old but the clearest image I have was in SHKODRA bikes bikes bikes and only bikes i cant remember a car or traffic lights this is 1989 .everyone was on bikes .it was amazing and still i hva been to albanina many times since but that is a memory i have of OLD shqipnija
One thing which always strikes me is how well spoken youth were in communist countries. This lady for example. Of course there's a reason and dark side to that but nonetheless I wish people nowadays would still sometimes THINK before opening their mouths
Communism ended and now they have big mouths again 😂. During communism your mouth could get your whole family killed
Dude... They are picked by a group of propaganda specialists. Do you think that he was allowed to pick out anyone on the street for an interview?
@@durimmiziraj4815 Yes I realize this. Nevertheless for example if you look at old footage from the GDR TV youth spoke in similar ways. Maybe it was also due to different times and probably youth in the West also spoke differently compared to nowadays
@@Chris-pf8by Degenerates have always existed, its only now that the degenerates are paraded in the media.
People used to show their best sides when millions of people where watching, now... they shake their buttocks instead.
Albanians in general have a talent for languages, given of course they have space and resources to learn@@Chris-pf8by
What a lovely lady
Enver Hoxha did ZBOR to their people!
The young people did not volunteer to build the country. We were forced to "volunteer" to build the country with slavery because if your name was called to "volunteer" you can't refuse or you're sent to prisoner and you were considered traitor!
@Sumapluma 🤣🤣🤣 se me bere te flas anglisht🤣 je i madh
Jo zbor, po enveri dhe lakenjte e tij, ishin sadistet me te ndyre qe kominizmi ne Europe kishte. Stalini mbase bere ca eksperimente nga 1932-1935, po jo si ne Shqiperi - qeveria komuniste tallej me viktimat e saj. Edhe kafsha me mire jeton ne liri me rrezikun te vdese nga uria apo armiqte - ndersa shqiptaret iu nenshtruan nje burgu te rrethuar me tela me gjemba. Madje, mjaft shqiptare ende sot jane viktima te burgosjes 47 vjecare... sepse ndryshe nuk e shpjegoj dot si mund te kene simpati per ate rregjim, sepse nuk eshte fjala se keta qe lavderojne rregjimin ishin komuniste atehere... se dhe komunistet ne vrime te veshit e kishin... imagjino qe "kungulli i madh" detyroi shokun e vet me te ngushte te vriste veten, e po pyeste ai per ca palo komuniste neper lagje... ata i kishte (sic thuhet ne ushtri) si mbushes topi. Fatkeqesia me e madhe eshte se ata shqiptare qe linden ne vitet e diktatures, dhe e "dashuruan" diktaturen atehere po mesojne niperit dhe mbesat sot me genjeshtra se e bukur ishte Shqiperia ne komunizem, se e qete, sa te pasterta ishin rruget... ne nje fare menyre une mendoj se shqiptaret ne shumice ia shiten shiprtin djallit, sepse nuk ka mundesi sesi nje rregjim aq gjakatar dhe i pameshirshem te mbijetonte per 47 vjet. Te thuash urrejtje eshte shume pak per ate rregjim dhe ata njerez qe e barten ate permbi shqiptaret; perbuzje dhe neveri do ishte fjala me e drejte.
@@truongdangmanh7471 Actually they were brainwashed, and some continue to be brainwashed even today, and teaching their kids wrong history.
@real arkan hahahahahahaha enver hoxha maskara
What is the name of the music the klarinet playing?
Il grande maestro del clarinetto Laver Bariu
Would like to see how, where these people are today. 🤔
Albanian 🇦🇱👍💪🙏🏼🇺🇸👋
.... and 2-3 years after this documentary everything collapsed into rubble and all these " proud, patriotic" Albanians fled to Greece, Italy and elsewhere! A pestilence that we STILL have to deal with even to this day!
Yep, Albanians are as proud as they can be... but the truth is, Albanians self-inflicted the worst communist dictatorship in Europe - well with the help serbs who enver hoxha called brothers until 1948, when Stalin decided to divorce Tito...
this is so fascinating. i dated a man from albania, he was the sweetest man but he had a rather large ego. and from this documentary, and listening to some of the history, it seems like people from albania are kind of groomed to have a large ego or groomed to have great pride? i may be wrong though, but i love this documentary, it has such an interesting, paranoid history 🤷🏻♀️
@@artsygirl2003 all the people in this film are fake or edited so as to take the best impression of the new communist Albania, post-Enver, as if reforms weren't needed.
You are a victim of you mediatic propaganda racoon! You can't compete with albanians in their contribution to society. Just get your daily dose of your christianic xenophobic propaganda and go to sleep...
@@artsygirl2003 i think its a bit from that too.They were told that we were the best ect ect.So the government fed their ego with propaganda and probably it will be the same for a few generations
"Last days" were in 1991, not 1988
It would have been intresting to do a follow up documentary and asking the same people now about what they believe,
The documentary showed nothing of the truth. People were scared of talking because they knew what would happen to themslefs or their families if they oppened their mouth.
I like the documentary about the pictures (lanscapes) something that have been destroed today by greed.
Albanian journey end of an era was the follow up. Google it as not on CZcams
Lol, you're not even from Albania, but from the UK. What do you know about what people thought and how freely they spoke? I've got family and friends from former East Germany, you'd be surprised how open people criticized in the Eastern Bloc, especially in regards to everyday problems.
@Potato man How do you know where I am from. I was born in Albania and actually in Saranda. I wouldn't comment otherwise.
My grandfather went in jail and I know more than you think... so stop been a potato man .
@@kosmokratoria In this case, my sincere apology. Still, one can't generalize about the countries of Eastern Europe in this regard. My family's experience was different.
@@potatoman7604 the Albanian experience was not the same as the USSR experience
Now a member of NATO
LOL... (11:14) hoxha never finished his studies in France where he went with a scholarship from the King, who hoxha forbade to return when he came in power... hoxha also purged all his benefactors, including the kingdom's education minister, and his own brother-in-law. Later hoxha made his close companion (prime-minister) kill himself after a party meeting. Albania's politbureau members were mostly with four year education... while educated elite was reduced to manual labors or killed. Actually, king Zog supporters mounted some resistance to invading italians in April 7, 1939. Partly true, that WW2 joined Albaians, in fact it was Italy and Germans that joined Albanian lands, but hoxha let Tito take Kosovo again in 1945...
Po sot kush pengon ta rimari Kosovën ik more gomarë
Socialism? Do you mean Communism?
It's interesting how they make communism look good!
If socialism/Communism was so good why people were not allowed to watch TV what they like? why there was only Government TV station and you're not allowed to watch other TV station? Why people were punished for rejecting socialism or were killed diffecting Albania?
I started working when I was 14 yrs old, in horrible conditions, today and they deny to count the years before you're 18.
E stato solo esercizio fisico come tutti gli altri nin c'era nulla di complicato nella nostra infanzia oppure gioventu come volete spiegare voi. Bisogna vivere di prima persona in qualsiasi parte del mondo per poter valutare e giudicare. Se non facevi niente contro legge eri tranquillo ma molto tranquillo...non si puo definire la nostra felicità e tanto meno non si può descrivere....piu che altro non abbiamo fatto la fame come lo definite voi!e una menzogna perché la nostra terra produceva tantissime cose nessuno a soferto dì fame cera per tutti..ovviamente non cera come nel capitalismo 100 prodoti di marchi diversi pero cera un genere alimentare oppure di altri articoli...ma questo non significa morire di fame perché nessuno mai nessuno e morto di fame...lavorare la tua terra non significa essere schiavi!esseri schiavi e lavorare per gli altri e distrugere la tua terra.....negando la tua provenienza cambiando il tuo nome e vergognarti della tua storia della storia del tuo paese che sei nato, che sei cresciuta, e ti ha insegnato l,ABC ti ha insegnato la cultura hai imparato tantissime cose con listruzione gratis...dovevi essere solo brava infatti Bravi!!a tutti quelli che parlano contro...la nostra storia contro il loro paese e che hano sputato e continuano a sputare nel piato che gli ha nutriti. Potete deformare tutto ma voi lo sapete bene che la felicità si trova nella tua stessa terra e uno che non ama il suo paese le sue origini la sua terra prima di tutto non ama nulla e solo un traditore specialmente chi vende la sua propia coltura e perché una cultura non la avuta mai!!
Please tell this to so many Americans, mostly young Americans, who think that socialism and communism are great things.
@@eglantinameta9769 Eglantina, you are an old communist propagandist - SHAME ON YOU for playing the devil's advocate. People suffered in communist Albania. Not all Albanians were deprived of minimal human rights and food by enver hoxha, communist lackeys like yourself made the regime last as long as it did. I hope Albanians open their mind and see what the regime, and sons and daughters of the regime are still doing to Albania and Albanians. I am a proud Albanian, and telling the truth makes me more patriot; you covering and sugarcoating the dictatorship makes you a liar, and a communist propagandist; I understand your happiness when others suffer, what else than a narcissist can say "felicità" when people suffer - some of you probably were brought up detached from the reality, and taught lies- I tend to believe that your parents told you that other kids have the same beautiful as you do... I bet they never told you that there are kids crying for food - you and many like-wise Albanians need to watch or read what Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva has freely said when she left soviet union - I pity you Eglantina for not acknowledging the wrongdoings that your fathers and grandfathers did onto other Albanians.
@@alexc9638 Maybe next time around... they went for socialism this time... let's hope this was a fluke because of the fever from covid !
Communism is jail time, and socialism is forced labor camp - as easy as that !
@@alexc9638 Socialism yes but not communism.
Under their dictatorship people needed a permit to travel within their own little country.
Albania in communists period was a fucking prison.
I am not Albanian.
Country was in 19 century.
Now I can say that is almost a modern country.
I like to visit.
Modern buildings , lot of public works.
Congratulations to Rama.
It is a lovely country anymore for business , for tourism.
They got a lotta nice girls there too.
Imagine the hell hole this olacee was in the 50s to the 70s
It was worse under 500 years of Turkish Ottoman colonialism & years of attack via Serbian forces. Albania was ALWAYS a poor colonized nation.
The sound so much bloody Yank's
Lol so inaccurate!
albania was the worst communist countries? but it was all self inflicted, due to pride and ego, it seems.
it's as if albania's motto is, "it's MY way or the highway"
I find many western sources which say Albania had the 7th strongest Army worldwide🤷🏻♂️
It seems legit, look what they had.
God bless my Big Albanien
Justin Trudeau's Mecca!