5 April 1939, only two dates before landing the black shirts of Mussolini in the land of Arberia, all the country’s newspapers were filled with great tidings: “Albania with inheritors,” “Skanderbeg II, was born today in the Princess Sanie palace”,” The biggest event in the history of the free Albanian people “. With festive shows on the birth of the king’s successor, were also filled the Radio Tirana programs. But no notebook, no other organ, had no single word for the agony that the Albanian government was lived, not a word was spoken about the dangers that threaten our nation. Was April 5th, 1939, when the fascist forces were making the final preparations in the ports across the Adriatic, and towards the east.
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