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
"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.
- Date
- September 1978
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Party of Labour of Albania (PPSH, named on the board)
- Country
- Albania
- Medium
- Signs and banners
- Issuer type
- Party
- Leader
- Enver Hoxha
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Event
- Cold War
- Techniques
- Identity fusionGlittering generalities
- Leader
- Enver Hoxha
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 4.0 (Commons file page); covers the photograph
Photograph by Bärbel Miemietz, September 1978, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Text on the object
PPSH TEK UNITETI PARTI POPULL QENDRON FORCA JONE
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.
