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Matteo Tacconi's reportage on Rudina Dema, an Albanese woman who spent most of her life in labor camps before boarding a migrant ship to Italy in , sheds light on an almost unknown chapter in European history. Even for a reader somewhat familiar with Hoxha regime's harshness, brutality and insulation, it is compelling and horrifying to learn Rudina's story. A baby who grew up in the camps as "enemy of the people" even if her father, a colonel of the former monarchy and collaborator with the nazi-fascist occupiers, had eloped abroad leaving her mother and her siblings in the fangs of the communist dictator.
So, firstly, the value of Tacconi's reportage lies in his recording of Dema's bearing witness. Furthermore it is beautifully written, neither too dry nor too emphasized, and thus conveys a sense of deep respect for the story he brings to an audience. Through Rudina Dema we learn about the fates of her family members with most of the survivors still living in Albania , so that the wider perspective of telling history as family history becomes even more significant. Tacconi succeeds in guiding us through these plural destinies while he explains what we need to know about the historical and political context.
This requires both a great skill in constructing his text and a deep knowledge of the part of Europe he is writing about. In fact, Tacconi is a freelance reporter specialized in the Balkans, a region often stereotyped and misrepresented. The seriousness of his work on neglected Albania is therefore one more reason for us to nominate his contribution. Rudina Dema was a political prisoner in Communist Albania from her birth in until she emigrated to Italy in Except for a few periods when she was released on parole, she had always lived in forced labor camps.
Her moving testimony provides a glimpse into the most ferocious, paranoid regime of the former Eastern Bloc. Farther along, we come to a large clearing of dusty ground and dried-out, yellow grass burnt by the sun. The clearing is bordered by a few more buildings, also stripped bare over time—no doors or windows remain, and broken bricks dot their interiors. Originally built by the Italian army during World War II, the Albanian communist regime subsequently held hundreds of families in these buildings.