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Editorial: The Albania we (really) want?

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL The Socialist Party’s now famous slogan “for the Albania we want” seemed initially abstract and almost impossible to read by the majority of the party’s militants, be those officials heading central structures or local governance branches alike; virtually everyone but the ‘great Leader’ had trouble comprehending it. Calling the winning party’s central figure ‘the great guy’ or the ‘great leader’ comes from Albania’s years under dictatorship, but is naturally not an Albanian invention. Many oppressed countries and people, statesled by pseudo-democratic regimes, autocracies to dictatorships, be those party-based or personal, as Albania’s case has been time and…

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