---
title: '"Qëllimi i televizionit borgjezo-revizioniste": beach sign against foreign television, Durrës, 1978'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/albania-anti-foreign-tv-sign-durres-1978/
description: A white board on two poles stands on a sandy beach with sunbathers beneath it.
section: Collection
---

[Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)

**Content note:** Sign applying the labels 'bourgeois-revisionist' to foreign television; people sunbathing in swimwear are visible beneath it. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

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# "Qëllimi i televizionit borgjezo-revizioniste": beach sign against foreign television, Durrës, 1978

A white board on two poles stands on a sandy beach with sunbathers beneath it. In red and black capitals it states that the aim of 'bourgeois-revisionist television' is to 'degenerate the masses'. Nothing on the board names who put it there or says which broadcasts it means; the label does the work.

## Text on the object

Original (Albanian) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
QELLIMI
I TELEVIZIONIT
BORGJEZO-REVIZIONISTE
ESHTE TE
DEGJENEROJE MASAT
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
The aim
of [the] television
bourgeois-revisionist
is to
degenerate the masses
```

Read from the committed image. The first letter of the top line is printed as a Q with a tail-like mark; the spelling shown is as it appears, without diacritics on the capitals.

[← "打倒王张江姚…" (Down with Wang, Zhang, Jiang, Yao...), wall slogan at Dazhai, Shanxi](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/down-with-wang-zhang-jiang-yao-wall-slogan-dazhai-1977/) ["Atdheu e mbron i gjithë populli": mural of armed figures on an apartment block, 1978 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/albania-atdheu-e-mbron-mural-1978/)

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