Historical Calendar April 26
1903 - The Atletico Madrid football club is founded in Spain. This club is considered one of the most successful...
“On the night of June 5, 1954, seven men and one woman left their homes and took the road, going up in secret…”/ The sensational escape of Refat Hysen’s group, from Kamenica in Greece
By Raimonda Moisiu - "Athinaiki" newspaper, on the front page, in the special column, published the article with the title;...
Historical Calendar April 25
1911 - Emilion Salgari dies at the age of 48. Salgari was an Italian adventure writer and pioneer of science...
“I tried to create a family atmosphere for my companion, Bashkim B., by telling him about my life in Istanbul, but, like Enver Hoxha from ‘Mercedes’, he didn’t…”/ Turkish journalist’s report in 1980-s
By Mehmet Biber Second part - "Albania, alone in front of the world" - National Geographic - 1980 Memorie.al /...
“Enver Hoxha has closed the country to ‘spies, hippies and hooligans’, long hair and mini skirts, blue jeans and make-up are taboo, there are no drugs, but sex comes first…”/ Turkish journalist’s report, in in 1980
By Mehmet Biber The first part - "Albania, alone in front of the world" - National Geographic - 1980 Memorie.al...
“Grandpa Gjon Bajraktar from Vukli, they burned him alive and for a week in a row, the smell of burning meat came…”! / The unknown history of the massacres of Mehmet Shehu’s partisans on Kelmendi, December ’44 – February 1945
By Gjovalin Gjeloshi - "In the Kelmendi war, other nationalists from Trieshi, Gusia, etc., as well as some Serbo-Bosnian Chetniks,...
“Pharmacist Alfred Ashiku and Jani Temo, a Frenchman of Albanian nationality, connected to the Anglo-Americans, used to go to ‘Dajti’ to have fun…”/ Security File, for well-known anti-communist intellectuals
By Agustin Mirakaj Memorie.al / In the first years after the Second World War, among the priority directions of the...
“After brutally torturing them, the father of the other three was hanged upside down and guarded by guard K.V., who…”/ The mystery of the “Red Well” in the Internal Branch of Saranda, filled with corpses
From Luljeta Progni Memorie.al / There is a place in the center of Saranda, where an old woman goes every...
“How the State Security killed the General Director of Police, Colonel Sali Ormëni, after the bomb incident in the Soviet embassy, after…”/ The rare testimony of his nephew, former officer Xhemal Ymeri
Memorie.al / One week after the extrajudicial shooting of 22 citizens of Tirana, after the explosion of the bomb in...
“How we brought the nephew of Hysni Kapo, diplomat in Prague, arrested by the Austrian customs, for smuggling tobacco and…”/ The rare testimony of the former detective
By Hajro Limaj Memorie.al / It was the end of August 1987. I was on duty in Istanbul. On the...