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Today marks 32 years since the December Student Movement, which is otherwise known as the National Youth Day. Since 2009, with a decision taken by the Parliament of Albania, this date is commemorated as a national holiday in honor of all the students of December 1990 and all Albanian youth.
On December 8, 1990, a group of students and lecturers of the Universities of Tirana became the initiators and protagonists of the great historical turning point, the peaceful protests that brought the fall of the communist system and the birth of democracy. The Student Movement of 1990 is the only peaceful Movement that changed the history of Albania.
A group of students, together with the lecturers of the University of Tirana, became the initiators of the great historical turning point, which brought about the fall of communism and the birth of democracy.
With the phrase “We love Albania like all of Europe”, they demanded the establishment of the system of Western values and the rule of law, integration in Europe and the guarantee of political pluralism as the main basis for a free and democratic society.
Their public act, both civic and political, peacefully ended the long era of self-isolation and ideological rule, paving the way for the market economy and open society.
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