Berisha: The student revolution of '90 also expelled Belgrade, which at all times dictated Tirana's policy

The Chairman of the Democratic Party, Sali Berisha, participated in the meeting organized at the blue headquarters by the FRPD and the 'December '90' grouping in the framework of 'December 8', Youth Day, where he recalled how the largest civic movement that overthrew the dictatorship in Albania began.

Berisha: Dear young men and women.

Dear Decemberists, Decemberists, this well-deserved epithet will accompany you throughout your life for your historical contribution.

Dear panel members, greetings.

Tonight we honor the democratic revolution of the '90s, or the Student Movement, which constitutes one of the brightest pages in the history of freedom, of the Albanian nation.

It constitutes one of the greatest achievements of Albanians on the path to freedom. The path to freedom has not been a smooth one for Albanians, it has been a very difficult one. A nation that had experienced centuries, if not more, of foreign invasions.

A nation that came into being at the dawn of the last century, more likely to be torn apart, in other words, to disappear.

A nation that in World War II was the first in Europe to be invaded and its invasion passed without being recorded. Apart from the media, no chancellor said a word publicly, and that a nation that on the day of liberation, the Albanians fought against the invaders, managed to align themselves with the Allies, although the war took on the terrible aspects of a civil war, but still, on the day of the departure of the foreign invader, another invader would be installed in Tirana, more ruthless, more barbaric than the Albanians had known in all of history.

He would be installed who, rightly, in the spring of 1990, the very parties that voted two days earlier in Washington on the DP resolution, would proclaim Enver Hoxha, the Albanian Hitler after World War II, in their statement.

So in this difficult journey of the nation, the democratic revolution of December '90, or the student movement, was and will remain one of the greatest events in the history of freedom.

It was an event, a revolution that not only separated systems, it separated eras, that is, the totalitarian system from the democratic system that would be established.

The era of freedom, with the era of oppression and repression.

But apart from these, this revolution had another, cardinal feature. It was a civic nationalist revolution, in the sense that, for the first time in the country's history, a government with no connection to the centuries-old enemy of the Albanians, Belgrade, would come to power or would begin its path to power in Tirana.

So this revolution also expelled Belgrade, which in fact, in fact, at all times and circumstances dictated Tirana's policy.

So it was a democratic revolution, it was a national revolution.