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« At Kruja - you haven’t been there -there is this man that we call Skenderbej. The statue of Skenderbej. He fought very hard for Albania against Turkey. His name was Gjergi, Yorgos in Greek. And they called him Gjergi. And when the Turks got him and wanted to turn him into a Turk, they changed his name. His name was Gjergi. Gjergi Kastrioti. And they named him Skenderbej. And he was a great man. He didn’t want to be a Turk, and he left and came to Albania and he fought very hard until he kicked the Turks out of Albania. And you can find all that written down in the history of Albania: everything. About what Skenderbej did and what he didn’t do. Those kind of books we had. In order to know what happened and all that. But everything we know about Greece is what our mother and father told us. How else would we know what happened in Greece? Isn’t that right? »
Myths and heroes
