Follow us on TWITTER: http://twitter.com/cnforbiddennews Like us on FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/chinaforbiddennews In a recent meeting in Moscow held by the NGO Memorial Human Rights Center, former Communist regime Albania was discussed: how to face the history of political persecution, how to clean the debris of Communism, and how to compensate victims of the political persecution. Scholars said in the meeting that setting up research into Communist crime is not enough to completely clean out the remains of communism in Albania. Like the other Communist regimes, Albania had experienced bloody terror and violence under the leadership of Hoxha, the firm follower of Stalin. Thirty percent of Albanians were politically persecuted or cleansed. Voice of America quoted scholars in the meeting, whose latest survey showed as many as 13,000 Albanians were secretly executed without trial. The whereabouts of their remains unknown to this date. In addition, the Communist struggle philosophy was vividly displayed in Albania. Hoxha's comrades at the Central were nearly all "cleansed" in the internal power struggle. Zhong Weiguang, political scientist: "The persecution Hoxha conducted was very familiar to us, who have been through the Cultural Revolution. In the darkest era of China, 1966, Albania was the dearest friend of China. Hoxha was one of the most typical Stalinists. Like the CCP, they were built on the persecution of the people. The cruel internal party struggles demonstrate that the people would only get even more brutal and bloody violence." The collapse of Eastern Europe caused the Albania leader to resign in fear of the same fate as Romanian Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu-execution by the people on the spot. Zhong Weiguang: "Albania did not have political dissidents. The cruelty had made dissident voices weak. It was the same in China. In the 80s, there were no voices from dissidents, but only reformists from within the Communist Party, who were merely trying to save the CCP. That is the reason why in 1989, there were no dissidents of courage and influence." Scholars in the meeting mentioned that, compared with other former communist countries in Eastern Europe, the effort of Albania to settle communist crimes has been unsatisfactory, reported the VOA. In 1990, Albania ended 48 years of one-party dictatorship by the Communist Party. However, the elite party members continued to work in government and became the Albanian Socialist Party. This incomplete transformation of the democratic Albania is believed to have resulted in slow improvement in economy and politics. The country remains in prolonged power disputes among political parties. Zhong Weiguang: "I believe, regardless of the ruling party, the priority is to understand history in order to prevent the replacing party from repeating the same mistake. I think the chaos in much of Eastern Europe has been caused by the incomplete transformation from former Communism. It could also be said that in fact, they have not learned about their own countries. The societal supervision has not fully functioned. In the transformation into a democratic society, these people get to fish in troubled waters." Zhong Weiguang is an authoritative figure in totalitarian research, currently living in Germany. He says that different voices were not heard in mainland China until 1999. Since the publication "Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party" in 2004, many more people began to recognize the nature of the CCP. Prior to this, those so-called reformists were not expected to cause any fundamental changes to the CCP, but postpone the development of history. Zhong Weiguang believes the lesson from Albania is that only in complete abandonment of Communism -- and denouncement of the CCP, will China have a fundamental transformation. 《神韵》2014世界巡演新亮点 http://www.ShenYunPerformingArts.org/

• published: 18 Jun 2014
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