"I never thought about escaping even when I was traveling outside Albania. My family was not persecuted and I felt privileged by the regime," Sali Berisha declared on Syri TV in his annual account for December 8, 35 years after the student movement.
He admitted that the State Security intervened and introduced segments into the DP, but did not manage to master it. Sali Berisha said today that, despite the dilemma he had about entering politics in those days or returning to the profession, he has not regretted choosing politics. Although this year, according to him, the motive that made him choose politics in that distant year '90 was Kosovo.
However, the fact remains that on the podium of the student protest in December of the distant year '90, Sali Berisha first appeared as a professor and a few weeks later as the undisputed leader who still leads the DP today. In the same movement, Edi Rama also appeared, who disappeared a few months later only to reappear a few years later, to be today the prime minister and Sali Berisha the leader of the opposition.
As two products of a movement with many lights and shadows, perhaps with threads moving somewhere in the offices of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, they continue to direct the fates of Albanians today. Not as a result of the developed paranoia of Albanians, but as a result of the post-communist logic and facts that continue to remain so present in Albania that never seriously began the process of decommunization.
