To go out against Enver Hoxha in a hall that was still shaken by “Party Enver, we’re ready every time”, you had to have a courage to take. It was the tenth Congress of the Party of Labor of Albania in June 1991.
The dictatorial system was in the last throes and this made his followers even more aggressive. Precisely at this convention, writer Dritero Agolli, chairman of the League of Writers and Artists, would openly go against the old politics, against the line of Enver Hoxha and the bureaucrats. His platform would encourage extreme reactions.
In addition to the “rope hanging” and “tossing” crying, Agolli would receive dozens of threatening letters … “The hall was greatly revolted by the words I said because they did not expect me to criticize Enver. They screamed with screams, sent me bumps, scorned and threatened me with life.
Someone told me that I had been pet of the system and that I had many parties in the party, that I had a Russian woman and so on. Hall screamed with great ‘Enver Hoxha, Enver Hoxha!’ Some rose and fled angry, mostly members of the KQ. When I finished speaking I did not go to the chair I had left in the hall, but I decided to stay close to the reporters near the tribune where the presidium was.
Journalists were standing in the side of the hall and I was asked to release a piece of space to stay there. I told you that if they are there, they will beat me and say goodbye here with you, that I’m safer, “he told the Panorama newspaper, Dritero Agolli, a few years ago. It is in this convention that the Socialist Party will also be born.
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