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title: '"Tek uniteti Parti-Popull qëndron forca jonë": Party of Labour board in front of the Ethem Bey Mosque, Tirana, 1978'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/albania-ppsh-unity-board-ethem-bey-mosque-tirana-1978/
description: A large board in front of the Ethem Bey Mosque in Skanderbeg Square, Tirana, with the mosque's minaret and the clock tower rising behind it.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Party political board placed in front of a mosque closed under the 1967 ban on religion. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[!["Tek uniteti Parti-Popull qëndron forca jonë": Party of Labour board in front of the Ethem Bey Mosque, Tirana, 1978](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/albania-ppsh-unity-board-ethem-bey-mosque-tirana-1978.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/albania-ppsh-unity-board-ethem-bey-mosque-tirana-1978.jpg)

# "Tek uniteti Parti-Popull qëndron forca jonë": Party of Labour board in front of the Ethem Bey Mosque, Tirana, 1978

A large board in front of the Ethem Bey Mosque in Skanderbeg Square, Tirana, with the mosque's minaret and the clock tower rising behind it. On a red-and-white field under the letters PPSH, three stylised figures (a worker, a man in an apron or overalls and a woman with folded arms) stand side by side beside five lines of slogan. The board puts the Party and the People in a single phrase as one source of strength.

## Text on the object

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

```
PPSH

TEK
UNITETI
PARTI
POPULL
QENDRON
FORCA JONE
```

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

```
PPSH

In
the unity
Party
People
stands
our strength
```

Read from the committed image; capitals are printed without diacritics. PPSH is the Albanian abbreviation of the Party of Labour of Albania.

[← "Right to Life" demonstration, at White House and Capitol](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/right-to-life-abortion-is-murder-1978/) [Mass spectacle with Ceaușescu portrait, "23 August" Stadium, Bucharest, 23 September 1978 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/daciada-stadium-spectacle-bucharest-1978/)

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