Albania - A parting shot

This is a country which has been involved one way or the other of every significant historical event in the development of our race (that being us humans). They own the lands they reside on through the fact they have done so for countless generations. They have suffered extreme indignity over those generations because they live in a strategic important locale when considering all their neighbors.

Consequently they have developed their own culture, their own pride, based on very strong and well balanced behaviors. They know what it takes to get along with each other. They are friendly and willing to embrace people from other lands (this means going to the effort of learning multiple languages to accommodate them) in order to make the most of what they are.
They are strong, they have spent countless generations of their societal evolution being subjected to forces trying to undermine their underlying understanding that we as a human race need to get along to survive and when we get it right - we thrive.
The Albanian people have moved forward enormously over the last 30 years. They could easily throw it away (this is their lesson for all of us), indeed they know because they have done so in the past. I.e. after WW2 they voted in who they thought was the right person, who ended up being a dictator and drove the country into abject poverty and suppression for two generations). They have challenges when mapping their way forward, given where they have recently come from though, you can see they have fresh memories to base future decisions on.
It's not that hard.
Lest we forget.