{"id":7818,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/1970\/01\/01\/gjergj-kokoshi\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:47","slug":"gjergj-kokoshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/gjergj-kokoshi\/","title":{"rendered":"Gjergj Kokoshi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gjergj <\/span>Kokoshi<\/span>, a poli<\/span>t<\/span>ical <\/span>ac<\/span>t<\/span>ivis<\/span>t<\/span> and Minis<\/span>t<\/span>er of Educa<\/span>t<\/span>ion from Oc<\/span>t<\/span>ober 1944 <\/span>t<\/span>o January 1945, <\/span>has passed<\/span> away. He was born in Shkodër in 1904 and s<\/span>t<\/span>udied li<\/span>t<\/span>era<\/span>t<\/span>ure in Paris. During World War II, he <\/span>par<\/span>t<\/span>icipa<\/span>t<\/span>ed<\/span> in <\/span>t<\/span>he an<\/span>t<\/span>i-fascis<\/span>t<\/span> resis<\/span>t<\/span>ance as a colo<\/span>nel in <\/span>t<\/span>he Dibra area and was a member of <\/span>t<\/span>he Na<\/span>t<\/span>ional Libera<\/span>t<\/span>ion Council. In Oc<\/span>t<\/span>ober 1944, he was <\/span>elec<\/span>t<\/span>ed<\/span> Minis<\/span>t<\/span>er of Educa<\/span>t<\/span>ion, a posi<\/span>t<\/span>ion he resigned from in January 1945. In Sep<\/span>t<\/span>ember and early December of <\/span>t<\/span>he same year, despi<\/span>t<\/span>e being a member of <\/span>t<\/span>he D<\/span>emocra<\/span>t<\/span>ic Fron<\/span>t<\/span>, he openly opposed <\/span>t<\/span>he new elec<\/span>t<\/span>ion law, which excluded o<\/span>t<\/span>her par<\/span>t<\/span>ies from <\/span>par<\/span>t<\/span>icipa<\/span>t<\/span>ing<\/span> in <\/span>t<\/span>he elec<\/span>t<\/span>ions. His name is associa<\/span>t<\/span>ed wi<\/span>t<\/span>h <\/span>t<\/span>he founding of <\/span>t<\/span>he Albanian Social-Democra<\/span>t<\/span>ic Par<\/span>t<\/span>y and <\/span>t<\/span>he opposi<\/span>t<\/span>ion movemen<\/span>t<\/span> known as <\/span>t<\/span>he Democra<\/span>t<\/span>ic <\/span>Union. He was elec<\/span>t<\/span>ed depu<\/span>t<\/span>y in <\/span>t<\/span>he firs<\/span>t<\/span> legisla<\/span>t<\/span>ure af<\/span>t<\/span>er <\/span>t<\/span>he war. <\/span>In January 1946, he was arres<\/span>t<\/span>ed on <\/span>t<\/span>he grounds of being a “collabora<\/span>t<\/span>or and sabo<\/span>t<\/span>eur of <\/span>t<\/span>he governmen<\/span>t<\/span>” and for having joined <\/span>t<\/span>he <\/span>ran<\/span>ks of <\/span>t<\/span>he Na<\/span>t<\/span>ional Fron<\/span>t<\/span>.<\/span> He was sen<\/span>t<\/span>enced <\/span>t<\/span>o dea<\/span>t<\/span>h a<\/span>long wi<\/span>t<\/span>h <\/span>t<\/span>he confisca<\/span>t<\/span>ion of his movable and immovable proper<\/span>t<\/span>y. However, by decision of <\/span>t<\/span>he Supreme Mili<\/span>t<\/span>ary Cour<\/span>t<\/span>, his sen<\/span>t<\/span>ence was commu<\/span>t<\/span>ed <\/span>t<\/span>o 25 years of imprisonmen<\/span>t<\/span> and <\/span>t<\/span>he loss of elec<\/span>t<\/span>oral righ<\/span>t<\/span>s for 5 years. <\/span><\/span>(In <\/em><\/span>t<\/span>he pho<\/span>t<\/span>o: Gjergj <\/span>Kokoshi<\/span><\/em>)<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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T<\/span>ex<\/span>t<\/span><\/strong>:<\/span><\/span> E<\/span>ncyclopedic dic<\/span>t<\/span>ionary of vic<\/span>t<\/span>ims of communis<\/span>t<\/span> t<\/span>error – Vol. <\/span>IV <\/span><\/span>,<\/span> “Wes<\/span>t<\/span> Prin<\/span>t<\/span>“, Ins<\/span>t<\/span>i<\/span>t<\/span>u<\/span>t<\/span>e for <\/span>t<\/span>he S<\/span>t<\/span>udy of Crimes and Consequences of Communism, <\/span>T<\/span>i<\/span>ran<\/span>a, 2015, page 263.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Pho<\/span>t<\/span><\/strong>o<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>© h<\/span>t<\/span>t<\/span>p:\/\/gaze<\/span>t<\/span>ashqip<\/span>t<\/span>are.al\/2019\/03\/20\/<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Gjergj Kokoshi, a political activist, Minister of Education (October 1944 \u2013 January 1945), and deputy, passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vdekje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7818","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=7818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11378,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7818\/revisions\/11378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}