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Eh, these vile Serbs!

2023-11-13 11:28:23Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA ARTAN LAME
Eh, these vile Serbs!
Artan Lame

About a month ago, one of the paintings with an Albanian theme by the Malaysian painter Paja Jovanovic, a work from 1858, went up for sale at Sotheby's auction house in London.

Paja has made an infinity of paintings with Albanian themes, which are a real pleasure for the eye and a brilliant testimony of that Arnaut world that has already disappeared.

Since we talked about the paintings of Albanians that foreigners make for us, Albanians also have pictorial evidence from foreigners, that "the goat ate their books" as Faik Bey says.

Even foreigners found trouble when they painted here, as Edward Lear remembers 10 years before the realization of this painting by Pajo, when he had visited Elbasan in 1848 and they had opened his head with nails and stones when they saw him drawing some characters , being convinced that through the drawing that European kaurri would take your soul, as the all-knowing master of the kasaba had told you.

Let's go back to Jovanovic. Well, the auction opened a month ago, it was closed yesterday and the painting of the hijerënda Albanian was bought by ... SERBIAN STATE.

As soon as this news was reported in the media, regiments of patriots flooded Facebook to curse, Oh, this vile Serbia that is stealing our culture; to remind you that this is what the vile Greece had done with the frock; then came the most comprehensive ones who talked about the worldwide conspiracy of all the vile powers against the Albanians, and lots and lots of others.

After the media, the news spread to all social networks and Facebook forums.
Like on a busy Sunday afternoon, I tried to see the reactions of the Creshnika Albanians on all those social networks that had published this news.

Everywhere the attitude was as unanimous as a block of granite: We condemn Serbia for buying it; we compare it with thieving Greece; we remember the world anti-Albanian conspiracy.

But nowhere did I see that anyone thought of the simplest thing in this world: Why didn't the Albanian state buy it?! Because an open auction was hell to eat, Vucic didn't come with socks on his head to steal it in London and take it to Belgrade.

Maybe even if the Albanian state had entered the auction, we would still have lost, because Serbia has more money than us, but at least we would have saved the face of the Albanians (we tried it, that's how much we had); but we would also have done a harm to the Serbs, because they would have bought it more expensively. We didn't even do that, "to throw a stone at him to break the scythe when he was harvesting the land" as Isuf Elezi said in 1923.

Governments in today's world are very sensitive to public opinion. It is the thing they fear the most and they follow it in all kinds of ways and immediately react to it.

The word that falls, deep inside me, I doubt that even Vučić wants to close the trouble he has got into with Kosovo.

Maybe inside himself he wants to sign the agreement so that the torture he is doing will end and, even in front of Europe, he will appear as a modern and open-minded European.

But he can't do it, because he is afraid of the public opinion of his country, he is afraid that when he returns to Belgrade with the signed agreement, they can eat him alive with all his rags. Maybe I say that I don't know much about big politics, from what they explain to me when I go to the barber.

The same is true with this patch work. If the Albanian state had entered this casava, you would have found the belana with the all-knowing millet on its back: here people die for bread, you buy paintings; why did you buy this and not that; then the popular albanologists would start, that this is the wrong picture that in fact he is not an Albanian but a Montenegrin; then again the savings banks, with that much money so many pensioners and so many farmers could be paid. And that's what they really call buying a bela with money. And apparently, the Albanian state decided not to buy the bela with money.

See a dream in the sun, as if the public opinion in Albania, upon hearing the news of the auction, starts sending letters to the visitors to buy the painting; the oligarchs for a moment leave the casinos and give money to raise a fund; civil society organizes petitions that are signed by long lines of citizens; banks and insurance companies declare that for 6 months they will reduce the profit rate and give the difference to Arnauti Pajos; the government under the instigation of public opinion and bearing in mind that the money was collected by banks and oligarchs, entered the auction. Eh, "andrra n zheg" you say Father Fishta.

None of this happened, because no one bothered the government, because the civil society is no longer even a civil society, the oligarchs did not leave the casino; the banks continued to make money with our money; and the Albanians continued their work undisturbed until the painting was bought by the vile Serbs.

Then? Then the Serbs continued their work, while the Albanians occupied cafes to wait for the next enemy.


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