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Do Kosovo Albanians worship the figure of Enver Hoxha?

Do Kosovo Albanians worship the figure of Enver Hoxha?

The communist dictator who ruled Albania for many years, Enver Hoxha, had complex relations with Kosovo over the years.

During the first years of his government he supported the idea that Kosovo should be part of Yugoslavia, but this position changed when his relations with Yugoslavia broke down.

After these events, Hoxha supported Albanian nationalism in Kosovo.


On the show "Conspiracy" on RTV Dukagjini, Mustafa Bajrami and Arianit Sllamniku debated the connection of Kosovars with Enver Hoxha.

Professor Mustafë Bajrami says that Albanians in Kosovo have seen Enver Hoxha as the only hope for their position in the former Yugoslavia.

"The figure of Enver Hoxha is worshiped in Kosovo because of the hopes that the Albanians of Kosovo had in him. With all the traumas and murders that Enver Hoxha has committed, he is the first leader who made a shadow state", declared Bajrami.

But Sllamnik thinks otherwise, who says that no members of the intellectual elites in Kosovo have had sympathy for Enver Hoxha.

"No middle and high intellectual class of Kosovo has had sympathy for Enver Hoxha. There is no simple poetry from Kosovo for Enver Hoxha".

"Enver Hoxha's Albania has kept the spirit of Kosovo Albanians alive. With all the anomalies that it has had, if it was not Albania as it was, with murder and imprisonment, that Albania has kept the spirit of the Albanians in Kosovo", answered Bajrami.

Sllamnik says that Hoxha could not have done something for Kosovo when he had advisers Milladin Popovic./Telegrafi/