Albanians ‘Deliberately Forgetting’ Horrors of Communist Past, Writer Says

In his new book, political scientist Ermal Hasimja says Albanians have deliberately decided to ‘forget’ the criminal nature of the country’s former communist regime, as a kind of defence mechanism.

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