The False Apocalypse: From Stalinism to Capitalism Amanda Dalton Four Mansi Songs Translated by

Four Mansi Songs Translated by Dorothea Gruumlnzweig and Derk Wynand

Funeral Oration

' you had said

the sky and the sea

The False Apocalypse: From Stalinism to Capitalism Amanda Dalton Four Mansi Songs Translated byThis unique and disturbing work concerns the events of 1997, a tragic year in the history of post communist Albania. After the worlds most isolated country emerged from Stalinist dictatorship and opened to capitalism, many people fell prey to fraudsters who invited them to invest in so called pyramid schemes. At the start of 1997, these pyramids crumbled one after another causing wide spead demonstrations and protests. The conflict became increasingly