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Secret police files reopen old wounds decades after communism crumbled...Velo, a painter, was told that his art was anti-Socialist, that it expressed “modernist tendencies.â€He was interrogated for six months and says he was held in isolation and secured with chains. Velo was later put on trial and sentenced to 10 years of hard labor under a Soviet-style "agitation and propaganda" law.Velo was assigned to work in the copper mines and spent most of his seven years, three months and 10 days behind bars alongside other political prisoners in Spaç Prison — part of a network built to mirror Stalin’s gulags.Read more at: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/communist-era-secret-police-files-reopen-old-wounds-albania-n884946
