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From Netizen, who says --
"this subtitled video shows nice ties between Albanian Islam and Italian fascism".
Italian Fascism and Albanian Islam
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It shows far more than that, Netizen. This brief look at the conflict between the church & state of Albania, plus the collusion of Islam with some of the invading players, is of historical interest on a number of levels.
The principle that "Scientific Materialism" would conquer the "reactionary religious" (be they the Orthodox/Roman Churches or Islam) didn't turn out as planned. Scientific
Materialism didn't prove to be very resilient after all.
Still, this is interesting as a piece of historical propaganda. "Propaganda" in this sense is not pejorative. It simply means an effective way of putting one's point across. At one time this effort to portray the march of Scientism as an antidote to reactionary religion may well have been effective. But that train left the station (and the track) of history long ago.
BTW, the date at the site says 1967, but it looks much older than that, especially the mode of dress and some of the artifacts in the film.
A prime value of the internet is the ability to preserve pieces like this.
D.
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