“Enver Hoxha should tell us why the state costs 1 million lek to treat each member of the Central Committee and…”/ Unknown documents of the Tirana Conference in 1956, in the book by historian Ana Lalaj
Part Two Memorie.al / There are some key points in a country's history about which it is thought that much...
“‘Lace’ is the first film made by the famous director Sergei Yutkevich, in 1928, where Soviet propaganda aims to show that freedom of expression…”/ New book by journalist and diplomat Bashkim Trenova
By Bashkim Trenova Part Twenty-Three - NAZBOLSHEVISM – LITERATURE AND ARTS - PREFACE Memorie.al / Historians, political philosophers, intellectuals...
“While defending Gera’s house, on August 9, 1947, he was surrounded by the Pursuit Forces in Munegja and after six hours of fighting…”/ How Llesh Gjon Marku, the third son of the Kapidani of Mirdita, was killed
Memorie.al / Often, our folk tradition has spoken and told realistically about the events that have occurred within our nation....
Calendar May 27, 2026
1942 - During World War II, in Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is seriously wounded during an assassination attempt in Prague....
“Piero Ghiglione is enthusiastic about the mountains of Albania and appreciates the work of Albanian Tourism, which has built a comfortable shelter…”/ Unknown book “Montagne d’Albania”, 1941
From Franko Tagliarini – A mountaineering guide from early‑1940s Albania, published by ‘Distaptur’ in Tirana in 1941. With a study...
“Beatings with sticks and whips were applied to most of the enlightened people in Elbasan, like the financier of the ‘Normal’ school who was flogged beyond imagination…” / Albania in 1912, through the eyes of an American journalist
Part Two Memorie.al / “Neither beatings with rods, nor weapons, nor cannon, nor exile, nor imprisonment, nor even death itself...
“Soviet cinematography, as its main and foremost axis, has the heroism of the Communist Party and the Bolsheviks in general, the greatness of…”/ New book by journalist and diplomat Bashkim Trenova
From Bashkim Trenova Part Twenty‑Two - NAZIBOLSHEVISM – LITERATURE AND THE ARTS - PREFACE Memorie.al / Historians, political philosophers,...
“My father was a journalist at ‘Bashkimi’ and a few days before his arrest, Enver Hoxha asked the editor-in-chief Thanas Nano, that…”/ The rare testimony of the daughter of Zyhdi Herri, one of the 22 executed for the Soviet embassy
Memorie.al / She was sitting on her father’s lap, they were learning French, when they heard the door bang. They...
Calendar May 26, 2026
1908 - The first major oil trade strike in the Middle East takes place in the Soleyman Massacre in southwestern...