Alia’s interview for the fall of the regime

He led the country in the last years of the communist regime, and in the first years of pluralist transition, and then retired from the political life. His death coincides with the fall of the Berlin Wall, which also dictated the fate of his power, a few months later. One year earlier, in his last political interview, Ramiz Alia visited Top-Channel for revealing some of the truths for the last weeks of the regime he led.

“My desire was that the students’ movement should be used for the country’s progress, and for putting it on a normal track. I wanted to avoid bloodshed, like in Romania”, Alia said in the last interview.

He commented for the first time the killing of some Albanians who were trying to leave the country, and condemned it.

“I am not aware that there these murders were made by an order. There have been people that might have wanted to create problems for the government and the state of that time, for putting obstacles to the democratic processes of our country”, Alia declared.

The former President, Ramiz Alia, passed away this Friday after a lung disease.

Alia was born on 18 October 1925, in Shkoder. He joined the communist movement before turning 20. He became a member of the Partisan Army, and after Albania’s liberation he started his political career. After graduating in 1954 at the Party’s School, in Moscow, he was accepted at the Political Bureau of Albania’s Labor Party in 1961, becoming one of the most important figures during Enver Hoxha’s dictatorship.

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