“The incorrect stance of comrade Mehmet regarding Skënder’s engagement cannot be separated from the concessions made co

From Dashnor Kaloçi Part forty Memorie.al / Exactly 43 years ago, as the dawn of December 18, 1981, approached, the...

“After three years, when I met my brother, Ilia, at the Writers’ Association Club and asked him: do you think our brother has been sent there on a mission by the State Security, he…” / Memoirs of the writer Sokrat Shyti

From Sokrat Shyti Part thirty-two Memorie.al / The writer Sokrat Shyti is the “great unknown” who, for several years now,...

“There are ‘People’s Artists’ here, who have not sung a single song for the people, while Simoni, who did not have that title, was sung all the songs…” / The rare testimony of the renowned pianist, granddaughter of the former minister of Zogu.

March 13, 2026

Memorie.al / Her love for Albania and her longing for friends and colleagues never wavers. Her return to Tirana to...

The unknown letter from Mehmet Shehu: “Fiqreti and I will die in peace when we rectify the Party’s mistake, when you marry a good girl…” / What was the Prime Minister writing to his son in Sweden on December 3, 1981?!

From Dashnor Kaloçi Part thirty-nine Memorie.al / Exactly 43 years ago, as the dawn of December 18, 1981, approached, the...

“When we were just settled in ‘Xhip’, I told the officer who dealt with the interned; I don’t know how to thank the First Secretary of the Party Committee and the chairman of the Department, he…?” / Memories of the writer Sokrat Shyti

“The Security officer told me; You should know that your brother, Ilia, escaped without moving from the People’s Theatre, as the organs of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat are vigilant and…” / Memories of the writer Sokrat Shyti

From Sokrat Shyti Part Thirty-One Memorie.al / The writer Sokrat Shyti is the “great unknown” who, for several years now,...

“Beloved Neli, you must not in any way aim for the daughter of Qazim Turdiu to become engaged to her, because…”! / The unknown letter of Mehmet Shehu, to his son Skënder in Sweden, December 3, 1981.

By Dashnor Kaloçi Part thirty-eight Memorie.al / Exactly 43 years ago, at dawn on December 18, 1981, the Albanian Prime...

“Even though they did not move his brother, Ilian, from Tirana, they did not leave him in peace, as they removed his role as Lenin in ‘The Kremlin Hours,’ due to his brother being a fugitive…”! / Testimony of the writer Sokrat Shyti

By Sokrat Shyti Part Thirty Memorie.al / Writer Sokrat Shyti is the “great unknown” who for several years has...

“After we had walked for hours on end, exhausted and overwhelmed, the Serbian forces stopped us at the train station in Prishtina, where we sat down on the ground, and they began to…”

March 16, 2026

Memorie.al / Makfire Maqedonci Canolli, an ethnic Albanian originally from Kosovo, where she was born and raised, immigrated with her...

“When the ambassador fell ill without the expenses of Mehmet Shehu’s son, Gani Kodra said; let’s travel first class, because it is required by work, we have weapons with us and…” / The ‘bomb’ testimony of the auditor from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

“I dear Taqi, please Gani, as a friend, as a brother, take care of Skënder, stay close to him, and don’t let him…” / The letters of Mehmet Shehu are revealed, regarding the officer of the Security and the ambassador in Sweden, December 3, 1981

From Dashnor Kaloçi Part thirty-seven Memorie.al / Forty-three years ago, on the morning of December 18, 1981, the Albanian Prime...

“How I freed from the courtroom four of my childhood friends, who had beaten and wounded their supervisor in the Torovica prison…”?! / The memoirs of the former prosecutor, the friend of Shkodra’s “vagabonds”

“Franci, a high school friend from Shkodra, whom we met by chance in Lushnje, where he had been interned, told me: ‘we, your friends, were happy when you started as a journalist on the radio, but when the magazine “Nëntori”…’!” / Testimony of writer Sokrat Shyti.