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courage to openly express opinions. The opening of such a possibility announced that Kosova Albanians could start creating parallel institutions that would cultivate and select the quality of political thinking. “KOHA” announced the great project of creating a state within a state. Milosevic’s regime was unable to prevent the process of institutionalization of the new political will of the Albanians. Veton Surroi’s “KOHA” played an important role in this process, particularly because

it created space to channel the recently freed energy. The institutions occupied by Serbs remained rubbles of concrete, because the people, those who created institutional values started creating new institutions founded on the premise of national free will. Some of us found our space in “KOHA”. In those times we believed we were privileged and we didn’t regret losing our jobs or being ousted from institutions that were being Serbianized. “KOHA” was a good articulation to division…


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