If we had better neighbors, it would have been a prettier neighborhood, Miss.
If you claim to descend from the ancient Greeks, you should realize how far you are from them [except for residing in the same soil and having nice museums] Tourism is one of the main branches of the Greek economy. Go figure. If it wasn’t for EU and its fat subsidies, you’d still see Greeks migrating like in the 80s. Read about the history of Crete island to understand Albania and religion. It was your your church that made agreements with the Ottomans. Really smart, especially when Greeks were also Turks’ brains, their translators or foreign policy makers, navy’s admirals and ship owners, Phanariote collaborators, wives of many sultans and mothers of new sultans etc.
Learn the truth in early 1900
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Albanian castles were the last to fall to the Ottomans, a dozen of years after Scanderbeg’s death, and Albanians were made a brutal example of punishment after the Ottomans overrun the country. When 2/3ds of the country is very poor and mountains, and when the religious tax [djizja] keeps going up, and when the Orthodox Church collaborated to keep the Catholics in north suppressed, one had to survive by “accepting” Islam.
Italian fascists united Albania with Kosovo, unlike Greeks who always wanted south Albania, even today. It’s not a reason to like them, even though it was because of the desertion of the Albanian troops incorporated in the Italian army that made Italians vulnerable to the Greek counteroffensive.
Communism couldn’t have happened without the help of the Soviets, and the Serbs who helped found Albania’s communist party. You had your own civil war after ww2, and a brutal military junta, so spare me the dictatorship lecture.
It is because of certain members like you who keep pushing old stereotype and new trashing of Albanians whenever you get a chance that makes things harder, but thank you for the prayer. Orthodoxism is not in fashion or a choice to recommend.
You can say whatever you want about the Greeks and Serbs, at least they had enough decency not to embrace Islam.
Know thyself: Hoxha, the KLA Islamists, are the last Stalinists in Europe.
My suggestion that you return to the Orthodox Christian fold was an attempt to reach out...and leave the awful MuslimTurk era behind.
