Where shall we start? Few people actually identified themselves primarily as Albanian nationals in 1912. ‘Albanianism’ wasn’t the religion of the Albanians until just 60 years ago after Enver took over the propaganda machine and imposed Vaso Pasha’s famous lie. Misha also goes on to describe how the ex-Muslim Enverist elite misled the two generations of Albanians into believing that Albanians were religiously indifferent throughout the Ottoman era. Malcolm has more to say about the Muslim Albanians’ complicity in the Ottoman hierarchy and how they benefited for 350 years from the oppression of their Christian neighbors as he compares how the Albanian mythmakers would deal with a given subject versus modern scholars: Modern scholars would also think it necessary to refer to the many examples of co-operation (sometimes to mutual advantage) between inhabitants of Albanian lands and their foreign rulers – above all, in the case of the Ottomans, with their innumerable officials and official of Albanian origin (including more than 40 grand vezirs). Noel Malcolm Myth of Albanian National Identity: Some Key Elements Quoted from: Albanian Identities: Myth and History Edited by: Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers & Bernd J. Fischer Page: 83 reocities/CapitolHill/Lobby/7681/faqe_83.jpg
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