A Chess Champion for a Dictatorship

A Chess Champion for a Dictatorship

Update: 2022-06-07
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Welcome to Juan Around - the Podcast. Today we went around the talk with Rozana Gjergji, one of the owners of Milingona hostel, where I was working as a volunteer in Tirana, Albania. She is a chess player and a lawyer that lived her childhood during the dictatorship times in her. We talked about:



  • Working hard

  • Owning a hostel in Albania

  • Growing up under a dictatorship

  • Becoming a teenager chess player for the party

  • Privileges and traveling thanks to chess

  • Losing childhood

  • Softer times nowadays

  • Becoming a rebel as a teenager

  • Father child relationship

  • the pressure of chess

  • Leaving the game

  • Relationship with parents

  • Returning to chess

  • Getting ready to leave chess for good

  • How Rozana met her husband

  • Relations with different religions

  • God

  • Religion in Albania through history

  • Prohibition of religion during communist times

  • Her work as a council in Rome

  • Rozana after chess. The lawyer

  • A legal case against the government

  • Stand for yourself

  • And many other topics


I hope you like the episode.


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You can find the song that Rozana Gjergji wants you to remember him with, here: https://open.spotify.com/track/3oEkrIfXfSh9zGnE7eBzSV?si=68b7438484ef4fed


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A Chess Champion for a Dictatorship

A Chess Champion for a Dictatorship

Juan Carlos Gomez

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