Liri Belishova

"A tragic life, the tragic life of an Albanian woman."

"I lost my five dearest people; Meet Spiro and her second husband, Maqo Çomo, two brothers, Fatmir and Bardhyl Belishova, and above all Drita, my daughter. An unbearable pain, which can only be understood by someone who has suffered such a misfortune. All victims of the communist dictatorship, for which I fought and worked with extraordinary dedication."

"The memory of Ramize and Nako Spiros has connected me a lot with her family. I am honored to have friendly relations with them. I have had Ramizena as a friend since the “Nana Mbretneshë” Institute, and we were in the dormitory together, but we became especially close during the War – she often came to my house for lunch and to sleep, she became like home."

"In 1959, on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the liberation of Albania from the fascist occupiers, it was thought to make a film about the National Liberation War. For this, he asked the Soviet Union for help, and they sent the famous director, Churai, and the writer Arkady Pervenchev. They had many meetings, Enver Hoxha also met them. The orientation was to make an epic, grandiose film."

"I was very young. But, maybe the instinct of self-defense also worked subconsciously. Only after Stalin’s death, especially after the 20th Congress (although he also revealed only the tip of the iceberg), could not continue with illusions, with excuses. The historical importance of the report on Stalin was that now his own party said these things, they were no longer “slanders of imperialist enemies"

"The film “Furtuna” was not liked very much by the Albanian leaders, unlike what happened with the film “Skënderbeu”, which was received with enthusiasm. But in Moscow, according to what I heard, they criticized him a lot, even for the slingshots"

"But why did this man see Nako Spiro so badly? He is a very popular figure and loved by all. Many witnesses of those times have died, but many are still alive. Why it is not based on the memories of Generals Rrahman Parllaku and Halim Ramohito?!"

"I believe that Nexhmije Hoxha is not correct – many years have passed. Ndofta, Nakua during the War, talked to him to express his love to Ramize and to get engaged, and after the liberation, he talked about me. Her statement surprised me, because in that period and while Ramizeja was alive, I did not feel any kind of affection from Nako towards me."

"There is nothing about Nako that has not been distorted and misrepresented. Even the lecture on morality that I mentioned above, he does not treat it the way we all heard it, but with the most surprising absurdity: Nakua spoke about the immorality of condemning Ramizena! It’s pointless to dwell on others, it’s not worth it."

"“Unfortunately”, Vasfi Baruti was not born at that time to write this book and for Nakua to send it to Enver Hoxha. He accuses Nako of “raping” Ramizena in Vlora, repeating it several times as an important “sin” of his. In Vlora, Ramizeja arrived on July 1, 1943 and was sent as Political Secretary of the Regional Committee of the Communist Youth of Vlora to help, because Vlora has always been very important, even more so after the “faction” and the problems that they came out"

"It goes as far as Nako Spiro, puts him in a group with Enver and Nexhmije Hoxha, Meladin and Dushan, “Xhako” and others, who accuses them of murdering Ramize! So in “Parallel Life”, where everything about Nako is distorted. Thus in “Lice and cholera of the soul”, where, among other things, he says: “correspondence” (of Nako with Enver and others) exposes the horrors of politics and dirty morals, destroys malice, revenge, crocodile tears. Likewise in other parts."

"In the end, I want to say that Nako Spiro, this crime shocked him a lot and together with other important issues of the War and after the war, made him reflect on Enver Hoxha and Miladin, on the Communist Party, on communism as a doctrine and as a realized system in the form of communist dictatorship."