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« Albania TV. That was the only one. There was no other channel. But we managed to pick up Yugoslavia with difficulty, using a hidden antenna. We wanted to see what was going on out there! Because we didn’t know anything. We liked it because it showed films. It showed scenes of motorcycles, of cars, like the ones we see here. We didn’t have those kind of things and we were young guys, we liked them. Now we have seen them live. We don’t need to watch them on the screen. Now we’ve seen them live. I don’t need to watch them on the screen. »
« n Albania in those days we listened to the popular Italian songs. We used to listen to them in bed covered under the blankets, hiding the wire too, so that the person next door - the neighbor - wouldn’t hear us. You would be sent to jail. And you would lose everything. Yes, yes, yes, [you would be accused of being] revisionist and imperialist. You can’t imagine what we have gone through because of all that…We listened to the radio in bed, hiding it under the pillow. The state-run channel shut down at eleven o’clock. At eleven o’clock at night, it said "good-night." And if they would see any light on in your house, a person from the…, you know, from the security police would come to your house to check out what kind of channel you might secretly be watching. Watching foreign channels was forbidden. It was forbidden to watch Italian, Greek or Yugoslavian TV channels, or radio, or any foreign broadcasting station. You would go to jail and be accused of propaganda against the regime. »
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