Language in Dictatorship as A Tool for The Manipulation of Thinking and The Free Expression of The Individual (The Case of Albania).

Living in a communist dictatorship for 50 years is a challenge for society, its development and more over for the relationship with thinking and self-expression. A dictatorship attaches great importance to language and this goes beyond a superficial attention, since it is very clear the strong connection that exists between thinking and language, it tries to enter the thinking process of the individual in order to program them according to its principles. The politicization of language and the intervention of the dictatorship in it is the opportunity that the dictatorship has to manipulate people's minds, to condition even thinking, the only opportunity that individuals had in the dictatorship to "speak", since freedom of expression was completely denied. Each dictatorship has its own specifics, so in this paper we will stop concretely and study the case of Albania, a country that for 50 years has experienced among the most savage communist dictatorships, as it went as far as completely denying God and punishing anyone who said otherwise. After a long study in this field, we will identify the path followed by the dictatorship to manipulate people's minds through language in Albania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]