Part of Albania’s attempts to un-erase certain aspects of its uncomfortable recent past and come to terms with its violent Communist-era history, the Postblloku/Checkpoint installation, or the 'Memorial to Communist Isolation', commemorates the country’s political prisoners who suffered under the Hoxha regime in a small park along the main boulevard. Created by the former dissident Fatos Lubonja and the artist Ardian Isufi, the monument is made up of three elements: one of the small concrete defensive bunkers that to litter the country, concrete pillars from the mine at the notorious Spaç prison camp, where thousands of political prisoners suffered, and a brightly painted section of the Berlin Wall that once split that city in half.
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