DEBATIK (United Boys, Members of Communist Ideas), an organization of young Albanian anti-fascist fighters, was created in the hills of Tirana. In this way, Albanian minors also became part of the Great Anti-Fascist Coalition. The DEBATIKs, although young, carried out serious and courageous tasks and activities: they carried information to all corners of the cities, participated in the packaging of communications and disguised and distributed the packages without being seen by the enemy, devised various activities, football matches near the military units to get some information, they carried out anti-fascist actions in an organized manner, etc. The DEBATIKs participated in protests and demonstrations, in tearing flags and symbols of fascism, in schools they abandoned the forms of fascist education and often the teaching of fascist subjects. (In the photo: “Debatik” illustration photo.)
Text: Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 1, Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2008, page 497.
Photo: © Albanian Radio Television
Graphic processing: AHCF
