53 British soldiers, most of them intelligence agents, lost their lives in Albania during WWII. This small cemetery in the Grand Park features the graves of 46 of them, and was established by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission only in 1995, their sacrifice being long suppressed from official Albanian history. There's a ceremony here every year on May 8. The red stone memorial to the servicemen originally was the stone on top of Enver Hoxha’s grave in the National Martyrs’ Cemetery, and you can still see the holes that held the plaque etched with the dictator’s name in gold letters.
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