{"id":9066,"date":"2025-07-29T13:28:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidssh.instant.al\/?p=9066"},"modified":"2025-07-29T13:29:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:29:52","slug":"borxhet-e-shqiperise-komuniste-prof-asoc-dr-gjon-borici-ligjerate-te-hapur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidssh.al\/en\/borxhet-e-shqiperise-komuniste-prof-asoc-dr-gjon-borici-ligjerate-te-hapur\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Debts of Communist Albania,\u201d an open lecture by Associate Professor Dr. Gjon Bori\u00e7i"},"content":{"rendered":"

To repay its debts, the state even took people\u2019s wedding rings.
Today at AIDSSH, Associate Professor Dr. Gjon Bori\u00e7i delivered a lecture on his latest scholarly book, *\u201cThe Beginnings of Albanian-Chinese Political and Economic Relations 1954\u20131960.\u201d* In his speech, he stated:\n\u201cThis book is an effort to present as comprehensively as possible the beginnings of relations between the two countries in the second half of the 1950s, as well as to explain the reasons for the full rapprochement between them.\u201d
He further focused on key moments in Albania\u2019s diplomatic relations with the countries of the Bloc, as well as specific phases of the economic crisis that consequently deepened Albania\u2019s debts to countries such as the USSR, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Germany. According to Prof. Bori\u00e7i, the total debt amounted to around 2 billion dollars, or 2 million rubles for a population of 1.3 million.
Your translation is already accurate and clear. A slightly smoother version could be:\n\nA defining feature of political Albania during the communist era, particularly in the second half of the 1950s, was the severing of its very close relations with the Soviet Union and, eventually, the forging of strong ties with China. The officially stated reason was ideological disagreement, while the inter-state dynamics and the true reasons for the split are explained in detail, case by case, in this monograph.
\u201cIdeology has been the fundamental factor for the longevity of power, as ideology served as the \u2018veil\u2019 of authority. Diplomatic relations also determined the next \u2018sponsor,\u2019 since in politics there exists the theory of the \u2018benefactor\u2019s role.\u2019 International relations have shaped the philosophy of domestic policy as well, which explains Enver Hoxha\u2019s resignation from the role of Prime Minister,\u201d Bori\u00e7i further stated.
Historian Bori\u00e7i views the Cold War as the \u201cexperience of experiences,\u201d and he notes that the reason Albania was not used as \u201ccannon fodder\u201d was that it began to repay its debts. At that time, according to documents, there was a massive collection of wedding rings, earrings, gold necklaces, and all other valuables from the population.
The author examines this period beginning in 1954, when spectacular political upheavals began in the Socialist Camp and Enver Hoxha was forced to resign as Prime Minister under Soviet pressure. Professor Gjon Bori\u00e7i\u2019s monograph covers the entire span of the extraordinary and delicate relations between the People\u2019s Republic of Albania and the People\u2019s Republic of China from 1954 to 1960.
The open lecture is a series of lessons organized by AIDSSH with a scholarly focus on events and facts from the period 1944\u20131991, aiming to shed light on the past. The Authority will dedicate a section on its online platform to this initiative and invites researchers in history, economics, law, and related fields to join this important program, which enriches and educates us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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P\u00ebr t\u00eb lar\u00eb borxhet shteti u mori njer\u00ebzve edhe unazat e martes\u00ebsSot n\u00eb AIDSSH Prof. Asoc. Dr. Gjon Bori\u00e7i mbajti ligj\u00ebrat\u00ebn mbi librin e tij m\u00eb t\u00eb ri, studimor, \u201cFillimet e marr\u00ebdh\u00ebnieve politiko-ekonomike shqiptaro-kineze 1954-1960\u201d. N\u00eb fjal\u00ebn e tij ai tha se: “Ky lib\u00ebr \u00ebsht\u00eb nj\u00eb p\u00ebrpjekje p\u00ebr t\u00eb paraqitur sa m\u00eb t\u00eb plota fillimet […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-leksione-te-hapura"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidssh.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidssh.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidssh.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidssh.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidssh.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidssh.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidssh.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidssh.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidssh.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidssh.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}