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"Marksizem-Leninizmi flamuri fitimtar": roadside board with Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, 1978

"Marksizem-Leninizmi flamuri fitimtar": roadside board with Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, 1978

A large roadside board in two halves: on the left a red flag bearing four white profile heads side by side, which Commons identifies as Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin; on the right, in heavy capitals, the slogan 'MARKSIZEM-LENINIZMI FLAMURI FITIMTAR'. The claim is stated as settled fact with no reason given, and the ideology is placed under the authority of the four portraits.

Date
1978
Period
Cold War
Made by
Party of Labour of Albania (state-run roadside signage; sponsor not printed on the board)
Region
Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Country
Albania
Medium
Signs and banners
Issuer type
Party
Regime
Peoples Socialist Republic of Albania
Leader
Enver Hoxha
Audience
Domestic public
Purpose
Mobilize or secure compliance
Themes
Elections and party politics, Media and information
Event
Cold War
Techniques
Glittering generalitiesTransfer
Regime
Albania under Hoxha and Alia
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

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

MARKSIZEM-
LENINIZMI
FLAMURI
FITIMTAR

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

Marxism-
Leninism
[the] banner
victorious

Read from the committed 1200 px image; no other lettering on the board.

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