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« The work schedule, work started at seven o’clock and ended around three or four o’clock, or maybe even later; around six or seven o’clock. At sunset you could see them coming, as we used to say in the village. They came back all together on donkeys. The working hours were many, and you would just take a break at noon for lunch. And people ate there in the fields. But it was too hot. People had a rough time! Really rough! They were there hoeing and hoeing the soil, without any machinery to do this work, like you have here. There they deliberately didn’t get any machinery, in order for people to suffer. And in order for them to have hands to work. If they bought machinery where would the others [the workers] go? They didn’t have any other factories for people to work on something else. They kept on slaving there wearily in the fields. »
« Generally in Albania, during the forty five years that Hotza ruled as a dictator, people were all lazy, if I can put it like this. And work was easy. That is, I had a good time. The work we had to do wasn’t worth the money we were getting. We had all worked it out in our minds. That was the time when things started changing in Albania and, to put it simply, we began to understand a little bit what was going on. And we started thinking that the money we were getting wasn’t enough in relation to the job we were doing. So we opted for laziness. To tell the truth, we practically didn’t do the work we had to do. In exchange for that little amount of money we were getting. »
Communist worker
