It is a cartoon from almost a century ago, published in "Dielli" on June 17, 1922, now forgotten, but which speaks to us with the same message and where you can even understand our times well. It is called "Albania dances with death" and is authored by the American cartoonist Frank E. Davidson.
The latter, employed by Konica in the 20s and constantly assisted by him on Albanian topics, has covered extraordinary situations in our country, emerging from the Congress of Lushnja, which had just been set up after World War I. A group of stylized characters from different social groups are sitting in a circle, with bottles next to them (a national custom), with their mouths gaping with the joy of the wilderness, looking at Albania, conceived as a beautiful maiden dancing with death.
The cartoon has the serial number of the Dielli issue, No. 4. Konica took care of the caption, as he needed to explain the concentrated idea to Davidson who not only had never been to Albania, but who hardly knew much about the country that was just making its way among civilized nations. Konica's sarcasm transcends time and comes alive until 2026: "And ministers, clerks, officers, property owners, in a word, the entire moral bottom of Albania, perform a tragic dance, laughing, wringing their hands, and shouting 'Hurrah!'".
Likewise, today we are faced with ministers who do not know their assets (like the houses of officials who parade in front of SPAK); civil servants who have no sense of being public employees, but who dream of making 5D model structures; wealthy people who today take the properties of residents, for example in the North of the country, and smash them into pieces and... Unscrupulous abusers of the country's wealth, who contemplate the torture of our state.
Today, a significant portion of these categories are the plunderers of the country, such as the one who throws Albanians off their property in the cadastre; the one who takes their property; the one who messes around in the administration for fun, or the unscrupulous directors of both sexes at all levels of government. Rama and his colleagues have no regard for these, they only have the power to stigmatize the media and anyone who tries to raise their voice.
Look carefully at this cartoon: Albania is destined to be torn apart and dance with the impossible... because its own people often simply laugh at its suffering. And the suffering is that it is mocked by monsters who no longer have any sense for the country, made with the sweat and blood of entire generations.
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