Albania Quotes
See Delores Ibarruri {604321} and Franklin Delano Roosevelt used the notion in his Third Inaugural Address {32529}. But earlier Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata uttered a similar sentiment: {46999}.
This was much less a treaty of how the two nations would interact with each other, than a joint statement to the world of opposition to any nation interfering with the internal affairs of another country.
Under the Kanun, even blood enemies who would kill each other under any other circumstances may not attack anyone in his home or be attacked. The stricture masks many major difficulties and made the Serbian atrocities against Albanians in Kosovo even more offensive to Albanians who follow the Kanun.
When Nixon and Kissinger went to China in the midst of the cold war, there are many American right-wingers who objected and thought that it was a betrayal of America’s fundamental principles At the same time, the extreme left wing, hard line Communists objected for the exact same reasons to China allowing the visit. This quotation is an excellent example of the latter.
This captures the essence of the Social Security System and similar old age support programs. In earlier and less developed societies, the cultural tradition was that the children had a responsibility to car for the elderly members of their families; in sophisticated societies, there is recognition that some younger people will not or cannot fill this responsibility and the system is institutionalized as Social Security of some variant thereof.
While he thought his own country had been so badly impacted by the war, other nations were in worse shape and suffered more. Russia for example. And of course Germany brought total devastation on itself.
At the time Turkey and the Ottoman Empire included Egypt and most of the Middle East, Chechnya, Georgia, Armenia, Usbekistan, Ajerbaijon, Greece, Albania, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia and other countries.
Albania was another Communist Country that had to use draconian measures to prevent its own citizens from escaping. In this case a person could be executed by trying to leave the country.
The deep enmity between Albanian Muslims and Serbian Christians had existed for 1000 years and continued after Boletini was long gone.
Hoxha was a mixture of extreme Communist and extreme nationalist. Note the paranoia about intermarriage and interbreeding with other nationalities which was typical of Balkan nations,. He actually deluded himself into thinking that Albanian occupation and invasion had never resulted in female fraternization or rape and subsequent ethnic mixing. International communism however, on this point was just the opposite of Hoxha’s—the advocated an international view of intermarriage and breeding. Theirs was a class paranoia, not a nationalistic or racial paranoia.
See {598377} for an English version of this notion.
