WGT EP 65 "The Journey" Pt.1 with Ilir

Wise Guy Talks interviews Albania immigrant, Ilir as he takes us from communism to American capitalism. He discusses some of the frightening trends in America that brings back painful reminders of communism. From the execution/murder of his grandfather, to how communism once defined himself and describes the "trauma of totalitarianism" Other topics in this episode covers: workplace government mandates, religion and atheism, the ultimate failure of communism in Albania, loss of core value systems, cancel culture and snitch society similarities, how many in his community became subservient to the party and could not think for themselves, censorship in Albania and giant social media companies, freedoms Americans take for granted, time to leave Albania in 1997 and left everything behind, centralized control of public school curricula, fear and intimidation in Albanian public schools, Linen, Marx and Stalin.