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| Albin Kurti while speacking online (archive) |
"Part of it was stolen from us by the Serbian occupier - 1,200 cultural artifacts of Kosovo. Another part of us has been oppressed and suppressed by dictatorship and ideology, we have been attacked by the academies of our neighbors, we have been sold and ruined by official ignorance or institutional corruption.” Kurti writes.
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We must be the defenders of every piece of our culture. A part of it was stolen from us by the Serbian occupier - 1,200 cultural artifacts of Kosovo. Another part of us has been oppressed and suppressed by dictatorship and ideology, we have been attacked by the academies of our neighbors, we have been sold and ruined by official ignorance or institutional corruption.
The archive of a people, its memory, must be kept intact by the regimes. Culture is created through the histories of regimes, but at its core is the creativity and adherence of the people.
When a cultural monument collapses, it is not as a result of a partial judgment, which comes from one's particular taste, but from the temporary interests associated with the benefits of some.
I greet and support all the artists and citizens of Tirana who have defended the National Theater for so long. When losses occur, the event, as well as the loss itself, is marked by resistance in history. In resistance, we learn, and since we do not forget those lessons, those who benefit today, will lose tomorrow, and those who lose today will win tomorrow.