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By Alan Andoni* In less time than it takes to fill in a pothole on a major intercity road, the historic main stadium of Albania was demolished. It has been replaced, at time of writing, by a large empty space, reminding us that it is easier to destroy than create. It took all of five days to turn the crumbling – but still functional national stadium of 72 years –into a mass of rubble. The stadium was begun in 1939, halted in 1943 because of the war finally completed by the Communist authorities in 1946 who named it Qemal Stafa…
