The famous Albanian singer, Alida Hisku, was invited to the show S'e luan Topi on Top Channel this Saturday.
She recounted her experiences during the communist era, where she ended up under house arrest after three fellow interns found her diary and spied on her.
Hisku: We knew that at the festival we shouldn't wear pants, because it was modern, we shouldn't have hair longer than our shoulders, they would cut it off. After the festival, look how they cut me there. I once took Emma's shoes, my shoe got stuck on a board, I left the shoe and went out barefoot. I disappeared from activities, from work, from everything, within 24 hours. I was 24 years old, I didn't have a machine gun, I had written my dreams, my desires, because my propaganda was to sing, I locked myself in the house, I didn't suffer any kind, to this day I am without any kind.
The prison sentence caused the divorce
The famous Albanian singer, Alida Hisku, confessed for the first time on the show S'e Luan Topi about her separation from her husband after the communist regime placed her under house arrest.
Hisku: I disappeared from activities, from work, from everything, within 24 hours. I was 24 years old, I didn't have a machine gun, I had written my dreams, my desires, because my propaganda was to sing, I locked myself in the house, I didn't suffer any kind, to this day I am without any kind. An injustice ate at me, hope, I thought that if not today, tomorrow you will come out again.
Russia: Was the punishment the reason for the separation from the husband?
Hisku: More or less.
Russia: He couldn't accept it, he suffered it as punishment, or was this the issue of the enemy of the party, of the people.
Hisku: I haven't analyzed this topic at all, I had two children and I dealt with them, because you have to put the plaque on something in order to act on a higher level of life, if I kept analyzing I would manage to forget about the children, I started working in a printing house.
He decided to separate because of this punishment, you were left with the two boys and in the early '90s you took the mountains and fled.
Hisku: (Nods). I ran away with the two boys. Thank God we walked well, the little boy was crying because it was winter, but we made it. Those two Durrës people took us and took us to Hungary, the night train to Germany. All refugees will suffer the first few years.