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Mar 21 2022

I grew up in a paranoid dictatorship. Isolating Russia won’t bring Europe peace | Lea Ypi

At school, we practised sheltering in underground bunkers. Albania’s history teaches that only dialogue and integration end the cycle of war

“Are the bunkers in Albania still working?” my 11-year-old asked on hearing the news that Russia had invaded Ukraine. “Some,” I said. “Why?” “In case there is a war in Europe, and we need to find shelter,” he replied.

I was his age one of the last times we “practised war” at school. At that time, all the bunkers worked, not only some – indeed they were one of the few things to still “work” in communist Albania. Once or twice a year an alarm would ring and we would rush out of our classrooms into the nearest shelter: a long, dark, underground tunnel that, legend had it, stretched all the way to the border with Yugoslavia – though nobody dared to venture more than a couple of hundred metres inside.

Lea Ypi is the author of Free: Coming of Age at the End of History, and is a professor in political theory at the London School of Economics

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