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A show by Blendi Fevziu The dictator Enver Hoxha was one of the most important figures in Albanian history. He ruled with an “iron” hand from 1944 until 1985 when he died in Tirana. Through the show “Opinion” journalist Blendi Fevziu brings the confrontation of the versions of the dictator’s memories and versions brought by other protagonists of the events of Albanian history, mainly declared after 1990 when many situations changed. His image is still in the memory of all those who lived under communism. A tall, handsome man who does everything possible, sits on a bench with students, hugs the elderly and children, this was the official Enver Hoxha that everyone was forced to see and know. But in the meantime, there was another Enver Hoxha, an Enver Hoxha that no one had the opportunity to know, but only a few of his victims had the opportunity to confront him and after 1990 most of them dared to tell the truth. One of Enver Hoxha's darkest moments was after 1981, after the assassination of Mehmet Shehu. It led to the execution of one of his collaborators, Defense Minister Kadri Hasbiu, who is considered one of the darkest figures in Albanian history. Enver Hoxha has constantly underlined the fact that he was not simply an Albanian communist, but an internationalist who was part of the French Communist Party. But unlike how Enver Hoxha describes his youth in Paris as a young man who participated in the Communist Party, one of his peers who came from a wealthy family and who had waited for the dictator when he was left without a scholarship in Paris tells another version. Hasan Jero became part of the partisan formations of that time, but immediately after 1944 he entered the ordeal of communist prisons and managed to get out of prison alive in 1990. Hasan Jero confesses that Enver Hoxha talks about his youth as he would have liked it to be and not as he had actually lived it.