“Mother Greece”. This is what the Greek expatriates of Albania call our country, who for decades endured the isolation and oppression of Enver Hoxha’s regime. The show “365 moments” with Sofia Papaioannou presents the young Greek expatriates in Albania, who are trying to save their country from abandonment by investing there.
The show visited Dropoli and spoke with two young children, Ifigenia Pappa and Yiannis Lolis, who are struggling to continue the businesses that their parents built with effort and at the same time trying to give life to our place which is slowly being deserted.
The next stop was the minority municipality of Phoenice, where last December the President of Albania, prior to his visit there, demanded that the Greek flag, which is legally raised on public buildings, be lowered.
The show toured the border villages from both sides of the border and presents stories of people living in the deserted villages. He had to travel far enough from the border to find the first living village, Zitsa of Ioannina, and discover there a love story that could be a movie script.
Source: Orthodox ostypos