{"id":6480,"date":"2026-02-14T00:07:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/2023\/10\/10\/foto-bala\/---c3dbd4c7-bb9c-49df-b6c0-a07e78039ea2"},"modified":"2026-02-14T00:07:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:07:35","slug":"foto-bala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/2026\/02\/14\/foto-bala\/","title":{"rendered":"Foto Bala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foto Bala, professor of philosophy and literature, was born in the village of Vuno in Himara. He finished the Gjirokastra semi-high school, the Kor\u00e7a 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, Dhimit\u00ebr 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&#8217;s Council of the Kor\u00e7a Center Subprefecture decided to seize all his property, movable and immovable. He was released in 1964. He died in 1991. <i>(In the photo: Foto Bala)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text:<\/strong> <i>Encyclopedic dictionary of victims of communist terror &#8211; Vol. I <\/i>, &#8220;West Print&#8221;, Institute for the Study of Crimes and Consequences of Communism, Tirana, 2012, page 145.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 Institute for the Study of Crimes and Consequences of Communism<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foto Bala, a professor of philosophy and literature, was born in the village of Vuno in Himara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ditelindje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8760,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480\/revisions\/8760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}