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
"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.
- Date
- 1978
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Not named on the sign; displayed on the public beach at Durrës (Commons file description)
- Country
- Albania
- Medium
- Signs and banners
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Leader
- Enver Hoxha
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Event
- Cold War
- Techniques
- Name-callingFear appeal
- Leader
- Enver Hoxha
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 3.0 (Commons file page); covers the photograph
Photograph by Robert Schediwy, 1978, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Text on the object
QELLIMI I TELEVIZIONIT BORGJEZO-REVIZIONISTE ESHTE TE DEGJENEROJE MASAT
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.
