Word: vrionis
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Dates: during 1994-1994
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What I got was Holta Vrioni, secretary-general of the Albanian Youth Democratic Forum...
Taking to Vrioni, I felt like a cow caught on the railroad tracks at night, staring straight into the headlight of an unstoppable train: her eyes are dark and intense, and she never looks away. "I come from a noble family," she says, and she looks like it: high cheekbones, face titled up, smooth white skin with the translucence of a da Vinci portrait...
...Vrioni castles have been destroyed; the Vrioni attitude has not. When the iron curtain cracked in Albania, the last bastion of communism in Eastern Europe, Holta Vrioni acted. "What motivated me was the suffering and the persecution that my family has seen all these years," she remembers. "I had this opportunity, coming from a well-educated family. I would see the difference between the East and the West of Europe. That made me angry because of the reality I was living...
...Vrioni uses words like "absolutely...
...Soon, Vrioni said, she and other leaders decided to channel the students' rage into a constructive political force. "We found we had to do something with the youth. The youth couldn't just spread out and scream...