Todi Lubonja

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Todi Lubonja (born February 13, 1923 in Elbasan , † November 19, 2005 in Tirana ) was an Albanian journalist and politician of the Party of Labor of Albania (PAA, Albanian PPSh). He was general director of the radio and television company of Albania . As one of the first victims of the purges of the dictator Enver Hoxha in the 1970s and 1980s, he was released in 1972 and then imprisoned.

biography

In his youth Lubonja worked in the communist resistance movement during the Second World War . After the founding of the People's Republic of Albania , after initially working in the communications sphere , he was first secretary of the PAA district leadership in Elbasan from 1951 to 1953 , from 1953 to 1954 chairman of the youth association of the PAA, from 1954 to 1955 first secretary of the district leadership Kukës of the PAA and thereafter until 1964 again chairman of the youth association.

Lubonja was elected a member of the People's Assembly ( Kuvendi Popullor ) in 1958 and was a member of the Elbasan District from the fourth to the end of the sixth electoral term in 1970.

He was also a member of the Presidium of the People's Assembly, the collective body of the head of state, and a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the PPSh.

From 1964 to 1970 he was editor-in-chief of the party organ Zëri i popullit (central party newspaper of the PAA). In this function he was exposed to daily pressure from the party and state leadership, in particular from Prime Minister Mehmet Shehu , as well as constant censorship efforts that prevented any criticism of the country's development problems. He himself found this period very stressful. Intrigues against him led to his being replaced and transferred to a managerial position in Korça County , which revealed the distrust of the party leadership. In Korça itself he was under strict control by the 1st district secretary Mihallaq Ziçishti, formerly head of the Sigurimi security service for many years , and the local Sigurimi authorities.

In 1970 he became General Director of the Radio and Television Corporation of Albania (RTSh). In December 1972 he was dismissed because, alongside Fadil Paçrami , secretary of the local organization of the PAA in Tirana, in December 1972 he was responsible for the implementation of the XI. Festivali i Këngës belonged to. This music festival was the first time Western music was played and the artists wore modern Western-style clothing. This led to criticism from within the PAA leadership. At the 4th plenary session of the PAA Central Committee, which took place from June 26 to June 28, 1973, he and Fadil Paçrami were severely criticized for allegedly anti-party and liberal attitudes. Both have been accused of undermining party socialist discipline. After his replacement, Lubonja had to work in a construction company in Lezha , where he was arrested in June 1974. The arrests of Lubonja and Paçrami shocked the intellectual and cultural scene.

As with other former political leaders, Lubonja's family was interned. Todi Lubonja himself was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment after his arrest . He has been accused of being a right-wing deviator and anti-party element who has apparently supported liberal and opportunist views as well as foreign influences and who used hostile leadership methods. His son, the writer Fatos Lubonja , who openly admitted his opposition to the Hoxha regime, was also arrested, tried and sentenced in 1974 to five years in prison. At Peimj's trial he was accused of belonging to a pro- Soviet circle and his sentence was extended by 20 years. Only after 19 years in prison was Fatos Lubonja released after the collapse of communism in 1991.

After his release from prison in 1987, Todi Lubonja was interned with his wife in the village of Malecaj near Shkodra . Already during the collapse of the old regime, he had difficulty reaching the opportunity to return to Tirana in 1990.

Works

His important publications include Nën peshën e dhunës , Ankthi pa fund i lirisë and Pse hesht shtëpia e muzikës .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List Of The Member Of Leading Albanian Party. February 20, 1961, accessed December 1, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Enver Hoxha: Zhvillimi i letërsisë dhe i arteve të bëhet në luftë kundër çdo ndikimi të huaj ideologjik - Diskutim në mbledhjen e Presidiumit të Kuvendit Popullor te RPSH, January 9, 1973 . In: Vepra 50: Janar 1973 - Prill 1973 . ( [1] [PDF]).
  3. ↑ a b Veteran Regime Functionary Ousted In Latest Purge. August 7, 1973, accessed December 1, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Shekulli: Todi Lubonja: Festivali për Enverin, bonbone me helm! (December 12, 2007) ( Memento of February 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Marcel Cornis-Pope, John Neubauer: History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries . John Benjamin Publishing, 2004, ISBN 978-90-272-3455-1 , pp. 233 ( preview in Google Book search).
  6. ^ Harold B. Segel: The Columbia Literary History of Eastern Europe Since 1945 . Columbia University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-231-50804-9 , pp. 83, 159 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  7. ^ Robert Elsie: Albanian Literature: A Short History . IBTauris, 2005, ISBN 978-1-84511-031-4 , pp. 171, 186 ( preview in Google Book search).
  8. ↑ Modernities Out of Sync: The Tactful Art of Anri Sala (February 23, 2005)
  9. ↑ Yes “kokat e prera” në art e cultureë, pas Festivalit të 11-të. In: Shekulli. December 17, 2007, accessed October 7, 2012 (Albanian).
personal data
SURNAME Lubonja, Todi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Albanian communist politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Elbasan
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 2005
Place of death Tirana