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Long Reads: Lea Ypi on the Enigmas of Modern Albania

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The Inteligencia in the South of Albania

Your family came from an elite background in albania. You had a relative who briefly served in the government after the italian invasion and was later denounced as a collaborator. Your grandfather always went to school with enverhoga, and at one point he tried to join the international brigades in ain while he was living in france. Would you say that kind of proximity or intimacy was a general experience for those who had higher education in a country where the intelligencia was quite small? Yes, i think the fact that theelligencia was quitesmall is really relevant here. And a the fact that disintelligencia was mainly one that came from these families of property owners, and

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