Foto Bala, professor of philosophy and literature, was born in the village of Vuno in Himara. He finished the Gjirokastra semi-high school, the Korça Lyceum and higher studies in Montpellier, France, always together with Enver Hoxha. In 1945, he was appointed a professor at the high school in Gjirokastra. This year they executed his father, Dhimitër Bala. He was arrested a year later (1946), on the charge that he had created the group of neoballists and that he was an Anglo-American-French agent. In 1947, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. On May 14 of the same year, the Executive Committee of the People’s Council of the Korça Center Subprefecture decided to seize all his property, movable and immovable. He was released in 1964. He died in 1991. (In the photo: Foto Bala)
Text: Encyclopedic dictionary of victims of communist terror – Vol. I , “West Print”, Institute for the Study of Crimes and Consequences of Communism, Tirana, 2012, page 145.
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