A flight of fancy or a false memory perhaps? Nevertheless, there must be some element of truth in this rather whimsical short post I wrote in response to the piece entitled Fame at the far-left blog Lenin's Tomb. Bizarrely, even this post was eventually deleted from Lenin's Tomb; maybe just in case there is a dangerous counter-revolutionary message encoded somewhere within it. In the 1970s, when I worked for the foreign-language section of Radio Tirana, I had a colleague who was tasked with translating Comrade Enver Hoxha's classic "Euro-communism is Anti-communism" into Danish. Copies of the book were later presented as gifts to a visiting delegation from the Revolutionary Communist Party of Denmark (Marxist-Leninist). What my former colleague would have given at that time for the Microsoft Word translation feature! And to think, the final result using such a tool would have been just as pellucid and intelligible as his actual translation! I also recall Hoxha's widow, Nexhmije Hoxha, presented him with a bottle of five-star Albanian cognac for his efforts.
A false memory? It must have been implanted during an alien abduction.
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