Welcome to Saligrad

The slogan ‘Welcome to Saligrad’ can be seen sprayed on walls across Tirana, accompanied by stars – a pun on Sali Berisha (the Albanian prime minister) by some rascals with too much time and paint on their hands. Just like in the classic scene in Monty Python’s ‘Life of Brian’, when Roman soldiers correct the bad grammar of the Judean People’s Front activists, the hoodlums who were painting the Saligrad slogans were approached by policemen who commented that they had spelled ‘Stalin’ wrong.