In the years when the Hoxha regime was established in Albania, the reasons that could bring someone before the court were resistance and propaganda against the system. For the Greek minority, however, there was an additional reason: their love of the motherland, of Greece. And those who expressed this love publicly and defended it passionately became a red flag for the regime.
On Saturday, June 17, writer Alexis Fotos was a guest on Mina Ralli’s show “Remarkable Personalities”; he describes shocking, little known aspects of this dark regime.
Alexis Fotos shares the testimonies of his grandfather and father, who lived at that time and talks about his book “A River of Tears” on the subject of the sufferings of the Northern Mainland Greeks from World War II to the early 90s, launched at the Embassy of Greece in Belgium, on June 15.