The researcher and linguist Ledi Shamku has reacted after a television interview of the head of the Skënder Gjinushi Academy of Sciences.
Shamku writes in a post on social networks that Gjinushi was a minister when that student went on hunger strike to overthrow the "assembly" and compares him to Lenin.
She emphasizes that the former Minister of Ramiz Ali from the top of the Academy was once again showing the way to the former student of Djetori, now an Albanianologist in Tirana and a teacher in Bologna, in the Department of Excellence ranked 42nd in the world, and that ASA will be lucky to have a partner.
"It is again showing us the way to the "iniquitous" who blew up the Soviet bunker and see from Europe. No sir, you will NEVER have Albanology!", writes Shamku, among other things
Ledi Shamku's full reaction:
I'm following an interview with one eye, while with the other eye I'm preparing a publication (at the proposal of the Università di Biologna), a sociolinguistic publication that summarizes 4 Master's Thesis on Arboretia by my students. I am completely immersed in Western visions where they talk and work only for openness and massism of scientific research Teachers - Students.
I am happy that I will have the opportunity, through inter-university agreements, to bring these 4 Arbëre girls for in-depth studies to the Institution where I work in Tirana - the Academy of Albanian Studies (ASA), which, being a Higher Education Institution , but it turns out that it is simply good to connect with the Department of Linguistics where I work here in Bologna.
My colleagues here are happy with this agreement because, as they rightly say, they haven't heard news from Albania for over 40 years. Since the time of Tagliavini - a colleague tells me. I laugh and tell him: back then we were scientifically free.
So I'm in these holes of my mind when I hear the voice of the politician and academic Gjinushi from the television. Honestly, I wouldn't have heard of it if you hadn't talked about Albanology. Check out what it says:
I Zoti i Akademisë: Albanologjia duhet të kthehet aty ku hyri në 1972, pra nën Asamblenë e Akademisë së Shkencave (bobooo prapë me Asamble ky! S’i ve faj, i asaj kohe është, i kohës se Pleniumeve. Ka qenë MInistër kur unë studente hyra në grevë urie për t’i rrëzuar “asamblenë”).
Moderatorja: A nuk është ky një kthim prapa?
I Zoti i Akademisë: Epo nanjëherë duhet kthyer prapa për të ecur para. (Bobooo! Vetëm Leninit ia kisha dëgjuar këtë variant kur shkruate “një hap prapa, dy hapa para).
Moderatorja: Por sërisht mbetet kthim prapa apo jo?
I Zoti i Akademise: Epo duhesh kthyer prapa kur ke humbur rrugën! Se duhet një shkencë elitare!!!
Këtu e mbylla televizorin se m’u sos! Se ish-Ministri i Ramiz Alisë nga maja e Akademise po më tregonte serish RRUGËN mua ish-studentes së Dhjetorit, tashmë albanologe në Tiranë e pedagoge në Bologna, në Departamentin e Ekselencës të renditur të 42-tin në botë, e që ASA do kete fatin ta kete partner. Po na tregon sërish udhën ne “të paudhëve” që kemi shpëtthyer bunkerin sovjet dhe shohim nga Europa.
Jo zotëri, ti Albanologjine s’do ta kesh KURRE!
Dhe a di pse? Se ASA tashmë i përket Ballkanit dhe Europes, e jo bunkerit tënd.
Dhe sidomos, se Albanologjia, sikunder çdo dije tjeter nuk ka me qene kurre ELITARE sic e do ti (ta neveris kete koncept prej Bllokmeni tipik), por do vijoje te jete nje shkence qe i sherben Shpatullave te Kombit, Nderlidhjes se mbare Kombit, Reformiit te Shkollimit me Gjuhe e Kulture të mbarë Kombit.
I hate your sovietism! Therefore, for this, if only for this, you will not be able to hide Albanology in the alcoves of the Assembly of your Academy, because it is yours!
Albanianology is the Sky towards which every Albanian looks up! And you can't put the sky in your Soviet bunker!
Long live, my Albanology! As long as your Nation! Free as your language!