The problem of war veterans has existed for 22 years. Yes, to draw attention to their incompetence, political parties in Kosovo, and having no ability and knowledge to carry out reforms, every time they lose in the vote, they pretend to be interested in the fate of war veterans! In this way, politicians instead of thinking about the future of the country, they trumpet some short-term patriotism folklore where they consciously and unconsciously suffocate the future perspective in the present.
Jashar Etemaj
When I first came to the West in 1985 to Switzerland and later to Scandinavia, there was little talk and writing about World War II! That's what I thought then!? TV rarely broadcast television programs about the LDB. In the West, people worked more and lived in welfare. The war and the heroes of the anti-fascist resistance were only talked about and documentary programs were broadcast on the day of liberation when the countries were liberated from the German-fascist occupation.
While I was living in Kosovo, Titoist and Enverist propaganda tired us out by writing, speaking and propagandizing about the national liberation war, about the (values) sacrifices of communists, partisans and war veterans. When they talked about heroes like in Albania, Kosovo and Yugoslavia, you had the impression that World War II had happened the day before yesterday and Ramiz Sadiku, Vojo Kushi and Žikica Jovanović Shpanac had been killed yesterday and not in 1942.
I lived and worked freely. When I walked the streets of Oslo, I often met the veteran and former Norwegian politician Haakon Lie of the "Arbeiderparti" near a kiosk buying newspapers, who seemed very friendly and charming to me. Haakon Lie was born in 1905. Lie was actively involved in politics until 1969. Haakon is known as an uncompromising fighter against fascism and communism, he died at the age of 104 in 2009.
In countries with consolidated democracies, those in power do not play the hero, they act like heroes. For example, Winston Churchill, as the most active man in the world who had fought Hitler, lost the democratic elections in England after the war. Churchill did not consider the loss in votes as hatred towards those and himself who had fought Nazism with flesh and soul, fatigue and sweat, as he would express it, but as a democratic value.
In communist countries, dictators often inflated heroes, war and veterans, with the aim of creating a Policy of Eternity. It was said that after the war, thousands of Serbian Chetniks had become communist partisans within a month. This dirty game was played by Serbia as an obligation to the Chetniks to colonize Kosovo. The Serbian mission was with three Vs, Volunteers, Veterans and Instrumentalized Vote.
Stalin, in the name of the war and the Communist Party, even after the war, had engaged Russian veterans to execute and imprison hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians as "collaborators" of Nazism. Putin, now almost seventy years after Stalin's death, continues with the same tone by sending veteran Generals who had fought in Afghanistan, now to fight under the pretext of denazifying Ukraine.
Serbia and the Albanian Titoist nomenclature in Kosovo after the LDB war, without any effort or iron, had found useful idiots and Albanian veterans who served Serbo-Slavic communism. A concrete case is the pigeon fancier Ukë Gashi, whose biography the Titoist state enriched by claiming that he fought Nazism without fighting at all. The Serbian communists made Ukë the mayor of Peja
Stalin, Enver, Tito and now Putin had created, or have created, a policy of eternity to govern as long as they are alive, using the party and war veterans as guarantors of their dictatorial power. Enver, in the name of the policy of eternity, played the role of investigator and judge! The Party will punish me, he said to the once useful idiot Kadri Hazbiu! Well, let the Party punish me, comrade Enver, answered the war veteran Hazbiu, who until yesterday, in the name of the party, had killed and punished him like Enver.
This cyclical selflessness of Beqir Balluk, Mehmet Shehu, Kadri Hazbi, and Sinan Hasani reminded me of the book about Ukraine by American historian Timothy Snyder, which is just coming out.
Snyder, when describing communist dictatorships and Putin, among other things, emphasizes: "The politics of PERMANENCE places a nation at the center of a cyclical sacrificial narrative. Time is no longer a straight line leading to the future, but a circle that returns without interruption to the same threats of the past."
In the Albanian cultural sphere, we still have politicians who try to build political careers in the name of war, even after 23 years. In Kosovo, we still have individuals, both known and unknown, who create veteran pigeonholes like Ukë Gashi, not because they are altruistic, but because they have a sick monthly habit and a desire for eternal power.
Real war veterans in Kosovo have been morally and materially discriminated against for 22 years. Real war veterans are discriminated against by fake veterans who watched the war on television, and now become complicit, stealing the small salaries of real veterans every month.
The LVV, the Kurti government should initiate and create an investigative commission on veterans. The salaries of fake veterans who were created as votes or as a bribe should be cut off, and the monthly salaries of real veterans should be increased so that they can live with honor and without basic economic problems, with the salary they deserve. RESPECT TO ALL THOSE VETERANS WHO SHOWED THEIR OWNERSHIP IN THE MOST DIFFICULT TIMES.
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