DAY 2
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20TH
Venue: Scanderbeg Square (between Hotel Tirana & The National Museum), Tirana
The Open-Air Exhibition “The Fall of a Dictator” will be presented to the Albanian public from 19th until 26th of February. The exhibition follows with photographs and archival documents the history of the placement and demolition of the dictator's monument in the center of Tirana. Decisions to develop his cult, the rise of the dictator’s cult, the inauguration of the statue and then the protests after the student hunger strike, which led to the removal of the name of University of Tirana and the demolition of the statue. 30 years ago, this act marked the symbolic fall of the dictatorship.
