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Who does the large concrete head in the center of Tirana belong to?
2025-03-09 13:56:59 / POLITIKË
Edi Rama gave the initial warning in his first speech as prime minister in parliament when he said; “you haven’t seen anything yet”. But the newest tower on Skanderbeg Square surpasses them all. The building, which is slowly being stripped of its scaffolding, has revealed a surprise worthy of a sick mind: a huge building in the shape of Edi Rama’s head.
In the initial presentation by architect Vini Mass and the Dutch company MRVDV, it appears that the project aims to give the idea of the face of the national hero Skanderbeg, seen from the square of the same name.
As Mass told The Guardian before the palace was built, the idea was Edi Rama's, who had said to him, "I want to do something with history," and from this sentence, a giant concrete head was born.
Only from one angle, the building may give the idea of Skanderbeg, but a bald Skanderbeg, as is evident from the spherical shape revealed by the building, has not been seen in any of the images depicting our national hero.
In the monument opposite, when he stands on horseback, but also in other portraits of Skanderbeg, the national hero wears the famous goat-headed helmet on his head.
In contrast, the new building, otherwise known as “Tirana Rock,” projects a completely different image. The round head, along with the beard and ears that create the wavy balconies, is easily identified with the head of Edi Rama. As such, the tower is a worthy contender for the special award “most disgusting architecture of the century” in Tirana.
Rama's fantasies of being compared to Skanderbeg and Ismail Qemali
There is no doubt that Edi Rama, in his fantasy, sits and talks with the most important figures in the history of the Albanian nation. Recognizing the boundless love he has for himself, even his serviles in the party and in the government have sensed that the right way to get the boss's attention is to indulge his delusions of grandeur, which have now gotten out of control.
There is no other way to explain one of the most shameless insults a politician makes to his boss in public, such as the comparison that Elisa Spiropali made to Edi Rama with Skanderbeg.
"The Albania that this man here, Skanderbeg, conceived can only be made by one man and that is Edi Rama, it is the Socialist Party," was her cry during the 2017 election campaign in Tirana.
But from what happened next, it was understood that the comparison had not simply been an oversight on Spiropali's part.
Edi Rama himself did not easily forget the comparison made to Skanderbeg, whether when he publicly mocked Spiropal, whom he called "Mamica", or when he used literary expressions, which are figuratively attributed to the national hero with the words "I did not bring you the hashish, but I found it among you".
Më pas, në takimiin që pati me Ana Oksën në dhjetor të vitit 2020 në muzeun e Krujës, ku Rama u shfaq papritur për t’i dhënë pasaportën këngëtares italiane me origjinë shqiptare, ai nxorri nga goja disa fjalë që tregonin një lloj përhumbjeje mes realitetit dhe ëndrrave.
“Skënderbeu më dërgoi një mesazh,- i tha ai këngëtares Ana Oxa, e cila e pyetie habitur: – Ashtu?
Po, kur flija sot mu shfaq në ëndërr. Dhe më tha është Ana Hoxha, jo Anna Oxa. Ana Hoxha në kështjellën time Duhet të shkosh tek ajo dhe të konfirmosh që ajo bën pjesë në ushtrinë time të shqiptarëve që nuk heqin dorë kurrë dhe… ju solla pasaportën shqiptare”
Edhe një vit më parë, përurimi i një përmendoreje të Gjergj Kastriot Skënderbeut tek Hora e Arbërëshëve në Itali ndezi një ortek polemikash në rrjetet sociale për shkak të ngjashmërisë me fytyrën e Edi Ramës. Sepse portreti në shtatoren e Skënderbeut nuk kishte asnjë lidhje me steriotipin e punimeve artistike që jemi mësuar të shohim, por me fytyrën e Edi Ramës. (foto më lart)
Kjo ngjashmëri frymëzoi meme të shumta, aq më tepër që në ceremoninë e inaugurimit mori pjesë Elisa Spiropali, me një veshje tradicionale të arbëreshëve.
Vitet e fundit, Edi Rama i përdor gjithnjë e më shpesh emrat e Ismail Qemalit dhe të Skënderbeut për të sulmuar kundërshtarët politikë dhe për t’u prezantuar si një bashkëudhëtar i figurave historike në zhvillimin e vendit.
Vetëm se pak muaj më parë, ai publikoi një video të krijuar me inteligjencë artificiale, ku shfaqej bashkë me Ismail Qemalin duke ecur para kryeministrisë. Në këtë pikë, situata e ka humbur racionalitetin. Video më poshtë:
Duke ia njohur dëshirën që ka për të qenë i adhuruar nga turma, Taulant Balla shpërndau një filmim nga lart të kullës, me pamjet e filmuara enkas me dron në një kënd të caktuar. Nga pamjet që shpërndau Balla, godina s’ka asnjë lidhje me Skënderbeun, por ngjan më shumë me një monstër urbane që shëmbëllen si Edi Rama.
Shikojeni vetë videon më poshtë:
Liderët tekanjozë me pushtet të pakufizuar
Siç duket më lart, kulla mishëron ëndrrën e lagësht të çdo politikani të sëmurë nga pushteti: ta gdhendë fytyrën e vet në një ndërtesë që sheh poshtë, me përbuzje, mbi popullin e tij. Një reflektim i shkëlqyer i “kultit të personalitetit” të një autokrati të vogël me ambicie të ekzagjeruar.
Tani nuk ka më nevojë as për propagandë as për postera elektoralë—koka e Ramës është vetë monumenti që dominon horizontin në qendrën e kryeqytetit.
Megalomania e një lideri politik nuk është shpikje shqiptare, megjithëse në podiumin e diktatorëve paranojakë ne përfaqësohemi denjësisht me Enver Hoxhën dhe bunkerizimin që i bëri vendit. Ish-udhëheqësi e mbolli Shqipërinë me mbi 173,000 bunkerë. “Shqipëria, kështjellë e pathyeshme marksiste-leniniste!“, shpallte ai, ndërsa vendi mezi siguronte ushqim për të mbijetuar.
Gjithsesi historia është e mbushur me tiranë që kanë tentuar ta ndërtojnë përjetësinë e tyre në beton dhe çelik.
Nicolae Ceausescu demolished half of Bucharest to build the “People’s Palace”—an architectural monstrosity so absurd that even today it remains a ghost of a regime that no longer exists. “We will build a palace for all the people, a symbol of the greatness of our socialist nation,” Ceausescu declared, while the people he loved so much were dying for a piece of bread.
In far-off Africa, Mobutu Sese Seko had built “Gbadolite,” a luxurious jungle city for himself, with a runway for his personal Concorde charter, while the country was mired in poverty. “In Zaire, I am the state,” he said, and the truth is that even his architecture reflected this pathological egocentrism.
Or Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan, who built a golden statue of himself that rotated according to the sun, "My people should see me as a source of light, as a true father who cares for them!" he said with absolute seriousness.
Common symptoms of absolute power
Such projects have one thing in common: they are not built for the people, but for the delusions of grandeur of their rulers. Psychologists have long studied this phenomenon and have found that the psychological diagnoses of megalomaniac rulers with gigantic projects are intertwined with each other.
These actions are explained by a combination of pathological narcissism, grandiosity syndrome, fear of death, or schizotypal paranoia.
As Freud said: "Despotic leaders are children who have never grown up; they demand that the entire nation behave like their parent, worshipping and blindly obeying them."
Hannah Arendt sums it up more directly: "Tyrants do not build works for the people, they build temples for their egos."
Even the newest tower in the center of Tirana should not be seen simply as another building built on dubious financing and indirect links to cocaine traffickers. It is a manifesto of Edi Rama's abusive power, a symptom of a pathological narcissist who finds satisfaction only in pushing the limits of his capricious power further.
Ironically, every autocrat falls prey to the illusion that his power will last forever, but this kind of delusion doesn't last long. Power crumbles one day. Heads fall. It's not a question of if... but when?/ Lapsi.al
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