The decorations...

2026-06-12 17:52:00, Opinione Luan Rama

The decorations...

For days, the Celebration of Creation has gathered party members in ceremonies of honor and decoration across Albania.

The youngest serve the founders.

Even though they don't know most of their names, they can at least read them correctly.

Each of them has the duty to present the party decoration, according to a previously determined order, to each of the founders.

The symbolism is clear.
Unity of generations.
The baton passes from one generation to the next and together we all make the history of the party.

While the founders are happy that the party is remembered for them.

They could even forget them, as happened when they forgot Dashamir Dini in Shkodra.

Even in Vlora they forgot Neki Dredha. Just as they forgot Ramadan Hasanaj in Lezha.

Petro Koçi was not invited at all, as if he was not at the head of the Socialist Party in Fier, during the most difficult period of its leadership.

Even "Zërin e Popullit", the party's newspaper that thanks its journalists to the passage of history and the transition from one name to another, even from one era to another, which was the only sign that proved that the party exists, is no longer mentioned.

When, at an awards ceremony in Tirana, several journalists from "Zëri i Popullit" were decorated, among many others, the great contribution they have made to the media was mentioned in the motivation, but the "scriptwriter" was careful not to mention "Zëri i Popullit".

Neither Përparim Xhixha and Thoma Gëllçi, the editors-in-chief before me, those who led the newspaper during the most difficult time, during the war, were mentioned.

Meanwhile, Muharrem Kola from Bulqiza, who in the May 26, 1996 elections, after being beaten, was thrown into a stream by the bandits of the government to die, is no longer on the list.

The rapist of Muharrem Kola in Bulqiza, Haki Tahirllari in Librazhd and many other socialists, by decision of the government of Prime Minister Edi Rama, is laid to rest in the Cemetery of Martyrs of the Homeland, together with Qemal Stafa!

These are stories, one might say. And history is no longer relevant to us. We live in different times.
For the founders, for those who led in those years, we give decorations.

It's the 35th anniversary decoration!
There are gold ones, there are silver ones.

At what point in the history of the Labor Party did they go and find this practice?

They shared the decorations.
These people share the decorations too.

Only back then, the 40th anniversary ones were shared by him himself, the Commander.

Meanwhile, in this world, these 35th anniversaries are shared by the youngest and the oldest.

Back then it was called the Feast of the Foundation.

This world is called the Feast of Creation.

The names change.
The script does not.

Happy Holidays!
Long live the Party!