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BALKANS ALBANIA : UNDER STALINE GLANCE'S - B & W
Settle
in the area of Tirana in Albania, the armed guards are in charge of the
protection of the last monuments in bronze witch survived from the lootings
and the destruction. During the peak period of communism, the smelting
works of the dictators employed one hundred persons. Today, the coming
in tears and blood of the democratic party post communist have dethroned
those idols, trailed-along thru the city under people insults.
This bronze full of symbols from the maoiste and stalinian period attract now rich americans who want their bust sculpted. Six people works in the smelting works of the dictators. These last workers melt tirelessly those vestiges of the past to make and sell new sculptures. Those monuments had seen thousand of faithful march and wait today in a total indifference to return in a condition of liquid metal. Only the major and symbolic works are preciously preserved.Those craft men auto-finance themselves with this hight quality bronze, first step to a non state company and a kind of liberalism. They receive a wage witch depends on their orders and production. The purity of this bronze considerably increases the profitability of that smelting works in spite of the obsolete tools their are using. The archaic and ancestral techniques to work the bronze give a special sheen to those sculptures, the signature of the smelting works of the dictators.
Today, the orders are modest and the smelting workers are group together in an artistic firm of shared meanings. Certain comfortable families take orders for funerary bust and several fashioned restaurants of the capital show the bust of their owners made with the bronze of the past regime, it is like a quip to the past apparachiks still in power. As a picture of the Tirana museum, the room of propaganda from the ex-communism regime stay close while people poster and denounce the crimes of the dictatorship, the past in difficult to assume. Albania stays on her own . The local mafia replaces the quasi inexistent and corrupted power. In the collective memory the country had already condemned to death those monuments. But, even destroyed, they will stay for a long time a part of the decor.
This bronze full of symbols from the maoiste and stalinian period attract now rich americans who want their bust sculpted. Six people works in the smelting works of the dictators. These last workers melt tirelessly those vestiges of the past to make and sell new sculptures. Those monuments had seen thousand of faithful march and wait today in a total indifference to return in a condition of liquid metal. Only the major and symbolic works are preciously preserved.Those craft men auto-finance themselves with this hight quality bronze, first step to a non state company and a kind of liberalism. They receive a wage witch depends on their orders and production. The purity of this bronze considerably increases the profitability of that smelting works in spite of the obsolete tools their are using. The archaic and ancestral techniques to work the bronze give a special sheen to those sculptures, the signature of the smelting works of the dictators.
Today, the orders are modest and the smelting workers are group together in an artistic firm of shared meanings. Certain comfortable families take orders for funerary bust and several fashioned restaurants of the capital show the bust of their owners made with the bronze of the past regime, it is like a quip to the past apparachiks still in power. As a picture of the Tirana museum, the room of propaganda from the ex-communism regime stay close while people poster and denounce the crimes of the dictatorship, the past in difficult to assume. Albania stays on her own . The local mafia replaces the quasi inexistent and corrupted power. In the collective memory the country had already condemned to death those monuments. But, even destroyed, they will stay for a long time a part of the decor.