{"id":7288,"date":"2023-11-03T19:21:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T19:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/11\/03\/dino-kalenja-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:03","slug":"dino-kalenja-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/2023\/11\/03\/dino-kalenja-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dino Kalenja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">Dino Kalenja, participant of the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War, Hero of the People, was born in Kalenj&euml;, Mallakastra. As a student at the Kor&ccedil;a Lyceum, he participated in the Bread Demonstration (1936). With the establishment of the Albanian Communist Party, he worked energetically for the realization of its political platform. In the years 1942-1943, he developed anti-fascist activities in Tirana. Working in the Ministry of the Interior, he provided important information and helped in the illegal activities of the Anti-Fascist National Liberation Movement; he was closely connected with the guerrilla units of Tirana and together with them organized the escape of political prisoners from the prison and from the prison hospital. Member of the Albanian Communist Party, in the summer of 1943. Partisan in the Peza detachment (1943) and then commander of the country command in Mallakast&euml;r and commissar of the &#8220;<em>Ismail Klosi<\/em>&#8221; battalion (1943). He took part in a number of actions and battles and showed leadership skills. He was killed in Gradishte of Hekali (Mallakastra), during the war with the German invaders, in 1944. <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">(In the photo: Dino Kalenja)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">Text:<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\"> <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Albanian encyclopedic dictionary &#8211; Vol. 2 <\/em>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, &#8220;Kristalina-KH&#8221;, Tirana, 2008, page 1094.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">Photo: <\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">&copy; <\/span><span lang=\"EN\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/151402498339962\/photos\/a.155725384574340\/1093293720817497\/?locale=sq_AL\"><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/151402498339962\/photos\/a.155725384574340\/1093293720817497\/?locale=sq_AL<\/span><\/a><\/span><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">Graphic processing: <\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">AHCF<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Kalenj\u00eb, Mallakast\u00ebr, Dino Kalenja, a participant in the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War and a People&#8217;s Hero, was born.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ditelindje"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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