Anthology of wounds - Arct

Anthology of WoundsThe Consolidation of the Stalinist Dictatorship: September1948 - December 1954This period represents the political consolidation ofthe communist dictatorship, which was marked by anincrease of terror and persecution. In the IntegrationInstitute there are registered 836 executions. In 1950there were done 7168 imprisonments; 2000 internal exilecondemns; in a total 9168. The “War of Classes” wasexerted more extensively and hardly. There have beenimprovements although not evident on the treatmentsof the imprisoned. At the beginning of this period thehigh level of previous crimes was attributed to the hostileactivity of Koçi Xoxe and the influence of Yugoslavians.In this line a number of communists consideredas unfaithfully persecuted were rehabilitated.The population of Albania in this year was 1.218.900habitants, thus 1 in 132 persons was in prison: 735 imprisonmentsin 100.000 habitants. After 1950 there wereestablished closed prisons of Elbasan, Durres, Berat andGjirokastra, and 4 working camps in Tirana and Lushnje.The prisons map totally changed after the Second WorldWar. The reasons were that:1)Due to the penal politics the number of imprisonmentsincreased. The initial capacity of prisons was 3000persons, but the number of persons placed there was7000.2)The use of prisoners work (in all the country were10 working camps).The conditions in prisons were indecent. The annualreport 1954 of Prisons and Camps Directory shows thatconditions in prisons improved; that there were no cases269