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Editorial: The lessons of the painful past beg to be remembered

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TIRANA TIMES EDITORIAL One of the key abilities for both individuals and countries to be mature and prosperous is to be able to learn from their past mistakes. Experience, no matter how painful or absurd, holds valuable lessons for the future. The most precious of these lessons are the acquired skills to recognize what specific mistakes led to catastrophic situations and avoid them by all means in the future. In 1996 the Albanian political scene, despite fundamental differences in context and specificities, had quite some semblances to the current political crisis in Albania. The majority of the time ignored the…

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