Does the Communist Mentality Explain the Behaviour of Albanian Politicians During the Transition Period?

During the three decades since Albania overthrew communist dictatorial system and began its democratic changes, existence of a line thought in Albanian society has been noted, which tends to explain behaviour politicians during transition period based on assumption “communist mentality” carried by them. This often dominant reflected media public space as form “main” explanation show many failures that democracy faced these 30 years, authoritarian political elites, “state capture” parties, crisis state institutions, etc. Applying concept explaining through it (almost) any kind negative phenomenon, problem, or contradicts idea prevents from developing, is very problematic, therefore served an impetus undertaking this study. In paper, critical approach will be offered discourse dominated space, questioning whether determining factor for there are other factors may phenomena.