“The man who kept the nation with its head towards the West.”
By Mero Baze Albania is not ready to see Ismail Kadare off. It has been caught as if in a...
“In the Vau i Dejës worksite, the Dibra brigade leader, Bastri N., a professional spy, eavesdropped on us and listened to everything we workers were saying, and according to our biographies…” / The rare testimonies of the former political prisoner
By Shkëlqim Abazi Part three Memorie.al / I were born on 23.12.1951, in a black month of a time of...
“After we waited for three months in front of the Central Committee and the Prime Minister’s Office, and the paths to a meeting with you are blocked, we are addressing you with…” / The rare story of the family from Tepelena that put a “Lightning-Bolt Leaflet” (Fletë-Rrufe) on Enver and Mehmet Shehu.
By Dashnor Kaloçi Memorie.al / In the mid-1960s, while spreading the famous slogan: "anyone without fear and in capital letters,...
“The discovery of the third volume of ‘Acta Albaniae…’ by Milan Šufflay in the State Archives of Tirana is a scientific and cultural sensation, because…” / Unknown facts about the famous albanologist who was killed by the Serbs.
Unbiasedness, Correctness, and Great Sympathy for the Albanian People Memorie.al / The unbiasedness, correctness, and great sympathy for the Albanian...
“The police who brought us to Reps got into the prison-van and greeted us in the most ominous way: ‘Worse and worse, may you never lift your head again and leave your bones and skin here…’” / The rare testimonies of the former political prisoner
By Shkëlqim Abazi Parte seconda Memorie.al / I were born on 23.12.1951, in a black month of a time of...
“In ’78, when Sami’s grandson came, they called me to the ‘Dajti’ Hotel, but our conversation was bugged by the Sigurimi and they took me to the Central Committee, where…” / The rare testimony of the last scion of the famous Frashëri family
Memorie.al / It weren’t difficult to find the scion of the Frashëri family, as suggested by the reader Përparim Skënderi....
“In the last years of the communist regime’s agony, the citizens of Tirana always gossiped about the kneading machines that worked 24 hours in the basements of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but…”/Reflections of the former Prime Minister of Albania
From Professor Dr. Aleksandër Meksi Part Two Memorie.al / In the last 25-30 years of Albanian history, there are many...
“Naim Frashëri writes, among other things, to Vasil Tërpo: ‘Do not give money for Kristoforidhi’s dictionaries, because it is not true, we saw it ourselves and…’!”/The unknown side of the famous Rilindas (National Renaissance figure) and linguist
Memorie.al /At the time, the missionaries of the British and Foreign Bible Society didn't know that, along with their work,...