Eraser cannot erase history

2023-05-23 21:48:00, Aktualitet CNA

Changes after the restoration of the Mosaic

The "Albania" mosaic, as Prime Minister Rama calls it, in his post a few days ago on social networks, has been completely restored, stone by stone, tile by tile. It has been restored, but it has also undergone changes.

This is one of those cases where someone picks up the eraser and seeks to erase the history of a country. With some details: The star has been removed, changes have been made to some of the images of people who symbolized work during the dictatorship. And these within the framework of restorations or political attitudes, after 30 years of our deformed pseudo-capitalist democracy.

In fact, it was done with EU funds, but who approved the erasure of Albania's history?

Jonila Godole, in one of her positions, emphasized that the European Union had paid for the restoration of a forgery. A forgery had been made. Yes it is true! The history of Albania has been falsified.

The mosaic before the restoration

Why will foreigners come to Tirana when they see the mosaic? What will show from the past? Where are the workers of the past? Where is the star, which shows that this country was communist. Why does everything disappear? Shouldn't it be saved?

Prime Minister Rama returned the famous "Bunk'artet", which was taken by Carlo Bollino. He also returned the "House of Leaves", to tell about the past and history. And on the other hand, you go to the museum and the star is removed from the mosaic, or the worker from the time of the dictatorship is deformed.

"House of Leaves"

Demolishing the old houses of Tirana, restoring the bazaars, making them modern, erecting towers, after 20 years in Tirana when tourists and children of Albanian immigrants come, they will look at Tirana as a city with developed towers and where it has disappeared the entire history of the city erased.

No, it can't be like that! Historical values ??are preserved, even those of the dictatorship. Not everything can be erased with an eraser and a dropped pencil.

Some values ??must be preserved as they were, so that even foreign tourists can be explained what that mosaic is.

The objects must be preserved, precisely such as the "House of Leaves" or any other, tools of the time , why shouldn't there be a museum for the dark part of that history, just as there can be a museum for those values ??such as hydropower plants for example , which were built with the sweat of Albanians, but are national assets today after 50 years, 60 years.

Mosaic before and after restoration

No one can wipe them with a wiper. It is not a matter of wearing a star to show whether or not you are a communist.

You don't become an anti-communist because you erased the star, nor a communist because you put the star on your forehead. That star on the flag is a part of Albania's history, it has remained for many decades and no one can erase it.

It is such a constructed work of art. Not everything should be destroyed with a squeegee in hand because by erasing little by little everything from the past, we forget where we have been, where we come from and do not understand at all, but we also get a dead end for where we are going.

Tomorrow's children must know the past, they must know history, they must know what that mosaic is, they must know what the State Security was, what was the dictatorship, the dictator, the events of the time because there is no black history, and neither grey, nor red, nor blue.

The mosaic before the restoration

History is with its blacks and its whites at all times, regardless of who is the greater of the two. They are the history of the country, the history of the nation, just as the country has traitors in its tracks, there are patriots, there is dictatorship, there is democracy, there is a flag with a star, there is a flag without a star.

Therefore, the action that was taken on the mosaic in the museum is an ugly act and to the detriment of the country's history, and for this, the funds of the European Union were used.

Someone in the EU, if they find out this fact, would be scandalized that with this erasure that we do to history, the Germans should have erased the holocaust, they should have erased every trace of the war, every trace of communism would have disappeared in the east .

No, they have them there and preserve them, they have them as museum assets, they show them, they teach the younger ones not to return to the wrong past, but also not to make mistakes moving forward./ CNA.al