Re: Albania Faces its Dark Past

32 min

Available until 21/10/2026

30/10/2023

For nearly 50 years Albania lived under perhaps Europe’s harshest communist dictatorship with omnipresent surveillance, imprisonments, and executions. Today the country has chosen to open up the archives of the feared state police, the Sigurmi. Are Albanians ready to face up to a difficult past?

Country

France

Year

2023

Politics | The European Collection

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