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Fatos Nano never threatened any journalist in his life...
If we say today that the government is omnipotent, that justice is omnipotent, that the media is omnipotent, that the oligarchs are omnipotent, etc. etc. it means that in our society we are creating pillars of power that must control each other. Accusations, of the most diverse for all of the above, are only made when there is freedom. Someone is only spoken of badly when no one is afraid of him, her, a person or an institution.
Another thing is true: In our society there are still individuals, or realities, whose names cannot yet be mentioned. There are taboos and fears. It is these dark areas that remain that should concern us, not what happens and is said in broad daylight.
Let's not forget that just a few years ago we couldn't accuse anyone in this way, shouting from the television studio about autocracy and lack of justice. We couldn't shout because there was no one on the list to mention. They were all lined up behind an individual, behind a family that had transformed the State, in the middle of Tirana, into those northern towers from where people kept warm in the hearth lit only for their own, and from outside everyone was shot at from the turrets. It was an individual who introduced the fear of criticizing a party and politicians into Democracy.
While Fatos Nano is struggling in the hospital between life and the afterlife, we must recognize the invaluable merit of that political leader who was the first among all to remove the fear of Albanians to say whatever they wanted about him and how they wanted; the media and opposing politicians. It was not easy for people to express themselves after 45 years under dictatorship.
Fatos Nano held, Fatos Nano did not threaten any journalist in his life. He did not threaten any opponent. Nano removed the fear from the most fearsome communist party in the Balkans. At a lunch with journalists, the then first lady, Xhoana Nano, attacked and freely discussed by everyone, would say her opinion with a smile, but taking care until the end that no one would take her opinion as a deprivation.
How beautiful is society when people freely say what they think, without slander or fabrication, and when this freedom is used to understand the coveted truth without cacophony. If today I think of a controversial politician like Fatos Nano, the debates he always provoked even among his own people, as the last taste I have left only that of the freedom offered: Freedom to express oneself, to write, to oppose. There is nothing more valuable than people who give freedom, whether in the family, in school, in the party or in the government.
Nobody is perfect, but perfection only stands on its own in people who are generous. We should love these Albanians unconditionally in Albania.
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