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GIGANTICKÁ Fotografie + English: Albania-02660 – The Albanians (Taken on June 11, 2013, Sony NEX-7)  
* The National Historical Museum, is the country's largest museum. It was opened on 28 October 1981 and is 27,000 square metres in size, while 18,000 square metres are available for expositions.
* The gigantic mosaic appearing at the main entrance is entitled The Albanians. The Albanians’ mosaic is one of the finest examples of late Albanian Socialist Realism still to be seen in the country.
 
The left side shows almost 2000 years of defiance against invaders, going back to the Roman Empire, later to Byzantine control, that being usurped by the Bulgars, which is now modern-day Bulgaria, in the 7th century. The major and long running battle was against the efforts of the Turkish Ottoman Empire to control the small mountainous country, this being the period when Skënderbeg became the national hero.

The right is at the time the mosaic was created, the latest National Liberation Struggle, the one against Italian and German Fascism in World War II. The red star on the caps of three of the four individuals indicate that they are the Communist Partisans, an organisation where armed men and women fought side by side.

The trio in the centre represented what was then the present in 1980s Albania, workers in control of their country, the red flag flying, the guns in the hands of the workers and united they are marching forward to a Communist future.
 
However, what you see is not the original. Sometime after 1992 the mosaic was ‘depoliticised’, at least partially. There use to be a large golden star on the flag above the head of the woman in the centre of the picture.

Above the twin eagle heads on the flag there was during the Communist era a small gold star and that also has been obliterated,
* Author: '''Dennis Jarvis''' from Halifax, Canada

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