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The installation of the bust of Zai Fundo/Filo: An extraordinary personality of Korça

2025-11-28 12:31:00, Aktualitet CNA

The installation of the bust of Zai Fundo/Filo: An extraordinary personality of

The Mayor of Korça, Sotiraq Filo, spoke to CNA after the installation of the bust of the intellectual Llazar Fundo, in Korça, in the square that bears the same name.

In his speech, Filo said that Zai Fundo was an extraordinary personality of Korça.

The mayor said that Fundo was a courageous man who defended his beliefs and ideas.  

Filo stated that by placing this bust, history is taught to younger generations, due to communism's attempts to overshadow the figure of Zai.

The Mayor of Korça thanked Prime Minister Rama and Parliament Speaker Niko Peleshi for placing the bust.

 

" Yesterday, the bust of this extraordinary personality of the city of Korça and all of Albania was placed in the square named after Zai Fundo. The placement of this bust follows two decisions of the Municipal Council, the first for naming this square after Zai Fundo on the city's pedestrian zone and the second for placing the bust of Zai Fundo."

Zai Fundo was an extraordinary personality of Korça, although unfortunately very little known. He was an intellectual, an anti-fascist patriot and a courageous man to say and defend what were his beliefs and ideas. It is precisely thanks to this courage that Zai Fundo was among the first communists of Albania but at the same time he became the first anti-communist in the moments when he saw, from the experience of the Soviet Union, that communism was not what was proclaimed in theory.

I believe that by placing this bust in the center of Korça, we honor this historical figure, but at the same time, we also teach history to the younger generations, who have not had the opportunity to know him due to the fact that even during the communist period, this figure was tried to be left completely in the shadows, in the dark, but even then, when he was mentioned, he was mentioned with a negative connotation.

"I am very pleased that we were able to realize it, it is a project that has been supported by the Prime Minister, whom I want to thank, by the MP of Korça and the Speaker of the Albanian Parliament, Mr. Niko Peleshi, and of course by the municipality, by me as the proposer of placing this bust ," said Filo./CNA





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