"Atdheu e mbron i gjithë populli": mural of armed figures on an apartment block, 1978
A large painted panel on the blank end wall of a five-storey block of flats: four figures in caps, three with rifles slung or held and one a woman, packed shoulder to shoulder in red-orange outline against a pale blue ground, above a band of large red capitals reading ATDHE... The panel presents the defence of the country as the shared task of the whole population, men and women alike.
- Date
- 1978
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Not named on the mural; painted on the end wall of an apartment block (location not given on the Commons page)
- Country
- Albania
- Medium
- Signs and banners
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Leader
- Enver Hoxha
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- Cold War
- Techniques
- Glittering generalitiesFear 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
ATDHE[U] E MBRON I GJITHE POPULL[I]
[The] homeland [is] defended by the whole people
Read from the committed 667 px image, which is soft. The final letters of both lines are hidden by foliage, so [U] and [I] are supplied from the visible stems and the sense of the phrase; the translation follows the supplied reading and is the least certain of the three transcriptions in this batch.
