Memorie.al publishes some rare photos dating back to February 20, 1990, which present us with some rare and unpublished images, with mass protests that began in the Student City where students of Tirana State University were stuck on a hunger strike to remove the name of their communist leader, Enver Hoxha, from their university. Rare images of “Martyrs of the Nation” Boulevard, showing tanks and vehicles of the Republic Guard with soldiers and armed officers, photographed from the high floors of the Dajti Hotel, and mass protests by the people of the capital and to those coming from districts in Skanderbeg Square in clashes with special police forces who had come out to protect the monument to Communist dictator Enver Hoxha, who collapsed and dragged himself into the streets of Tirana…
29 unknown photos of February 20, 1991, From protests in the city of “Student”, to tanks on Boulevard and clashes with police at “Skanderbeg Square” tearing down the dictator’s monument.
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