manuel cohen

Postblloku Memorial, Tirana, Albania

Postblloku Memorial or Memorial to Communist Isolation, inaugurated 2013, with a concrete cast of the supports from the notorious mine of Spac, a forced labour camp for political prisoners from 1968 to 1990, Tirana, Albania. The memorial consists of 3 parts - the mine at Spac, a bunker and a section of the Berlin Wall. Tirana was founded by the Ottomans in 1614 by Sulejman Bargjini and became the capital of Albania in 1920. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Postblloku Memorial or Memorial to Communist Isolation, inaugurated 2013, with a concrete cast of the supports from the notorious mine of Spac, a forced labour camp for political prisoners from 1968 to 1990, Tirana, Albania. The memorial consists of 3 parts - the mine at Spac, a bunker and a section of the Berlin Wall. Tirana was founded by the Ottomans in 1614 by Sulejman Bargjini and became the capital of Albania in 1920. Picture by Manuel Cohen