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admin [Does the "West" exist in Albania?]
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admin [Does the "West" exist in Albania?]
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 On the way to Tirana, I try to eavesdrop on my questions for this trip within myself. Albania is a small country that is not part of the EU, but has been a candidate country since 2014. Accession negotiations started on 19 July 2022.
-In 1991, a communist dictatorship that had lasted 45 years and was one of the most extreme in Europe, the regime of Enver Hoxha, collapsed in Albania. In that year, a traumatised, impoverished and isolated-backward country was released into a democratic future. The Hoxha period was, I think, the opposite of what for me constitutes the ideal of "the West". I wonder if I could make this idealised "West" my motif here? To what I am looking for, as a reality - or perhaps only as a longing, because it only becomes clear in its absence?
+Albania went through a long period of extreme repression and isolation after the Second World War. In 1991, the Stalinist dictatorship of Enver Hoxha collapsed after more than 45 years. At that time, an impoverished and traumatised country was released into a democratic future. The Hoxha period was the opposite of what for me constitutes the ideal of the "West". I wonder if this ideal could be my motif here? The thing I'm looking for? As a reality - or as a longing, as something that is evident in its absence?
 What is the promise of the "West"? Can it gain a foothold in a society that in 1991 consisted almost exclusively of perpetrators and victims of a ruthless authoritarian system? How did or does the transformation from there to a society of subsidiarity take place? Is there even a prospect of this? How does one see the sluggish, complacent "West" from Albania, as it appears in reality? Is there also this bitter disillusionment here that I keep encountering in the East of the West? Are people here also beginning to see an alternative to the West in the authoritarianism of China, Russia or Turkey? As the lesser evil to Western hypocrisy?
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-At the table during dinner yesterday, a conversation between fellow travellers started to unfold across from me. A woman from Poland, in Germany for 6 years, and another from Frankfurt an der Oder, in Berlin for 20 years. The young Polish woman talked about her country, which she had left. She would like to understand why Poland became like this, so right-wing. If she understood, maybe she could change it. The two women puzzled over this subject together with a kind of perplexed resignation. The German woman, who fled the spiritual confines of Frankfurt an der Oder as soon as she could, suggests that it is because of Poland's religious tradition. To the people's attachment to the Catholic Church. Perhaps she means to say that accustoming people to submission to a higher authority and its secular representation blocks the way to themselves.
+During dinner last night, a conversation developed between fellow travellers at the table opposite me. A woman from Poland, in Germany for 6 years, and another from Frankfurt an der Oder, in Berlin for 20 years. The young Polish woman spoke about her country, which she had left. She would like to understand why Poland has become like this, so right-wing. If she understood, maybe she could change it. The two women puzzled this subject together with a kind of perplexed resignation. The German woman, who fled the mental confines of Frankfurt an der Oder as quickly as possible, suspects that it is because of Poland's religious tradition. To the people's attachment to the Catholic Church. Perhaps she is saying that becoming accustomed to submission to a higher authority and its secular representation blocks the way to oneself.
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-The conversation between the two echoes a longing for what I will call "the West" for this journey. And there is the expectation that people who have this West within reach would immediately and joyfully set off for it.
+In the conversation between the two of them, there is a longing for what I want to call the "West" for this journey. And they have the expectation that people to whom this "West" is attainably before their eyes would immediately and joyfully set off there.
-The Polish woman seems to be in a state of crushing bewilderment that her compatriots behave differently. As if, in an incomprehensible masochistic fit, they were taking back a hard-won freedom for themselves.
+The Polish woman is stunned that her compatriots behave differently. As if they would deny themselves a hard-won freedom again. As if in an incomprehensible masochistic fit.
-I recognise "my West" in the longing of the two women. But I have a doubt. I find the ideal of "the West" also encompasses an understanding of the human desire for order, security and the preservation of traditions. For me, I realise, the "West" includes not only unconditional freedom from all foreign domination, but also respect for what people consider part of their identity. Or rather: that is also an aspect of Western freedom.
+I recognise "my West" in the longing of the two women. But I have a doubt. I find the ideal of the "West" also includes an understanding of the human desire for order, security and the preservation of traditions. I realise that for me, the "West" does not only include unconditional freedom from all heteronomy, but also respect for what people consider part of their identity. Or rather: the feeling of being bound to something is also an aspect of Western freedom

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