154 Artwork in Albania: The process of transformation from propaganda tool before the 90s to JT tool after the 90s 2.3. The punishment of artists as a consequence of the deviation from the line of the Party of Labour During nearly -alf century of the communist rule was created the target of “Dissident Artists”, who according to that time structures violated the ideological rules. The approach to art was also foreseen in the constitution of 1976: “Article 35 –The state protects the cultural heritage of the people and takes care of comprehensive development of the national socialist culture. The state supports the development of literature and art of the socialist relativism, which adshere to the idealsthe socialism and communism is are in line with national popular spirit.” 57 Given this, every artist would have to adherea the certain framework legally; other wise the artists would be accused of “Agitation and propaganda”. One example is that of Ylber Merdani58, today 86 years old, a former political prisoner, who at first was sentenced to prison and then was interned due to the content of his poetry: “They discovered my manuscripts and the diary. I was sentenced 8 years in prison and loss of civil rights for 4 years for “Agitation and propaganda” due to my poems. According to those who did the expertise of my manuscripts, all the poems were nonprofessinal, and were considered hostile” 59 On same way and for the same reason agitation and propagaarea is accused and sentenced as well the former political prisoner Hysen Kica60 saying: “People from Sigurimi came to control the house. They found a novel that I wrote, where I was talking about the injustices of the regime, stories, different papers and some parts of a manuscript. They confiscated them all and took them to the Branch. The chief of Dibra district investigator after their inspection said that I had seen the reality through the eyes of the enemy.” 61 Controlling artwork was thus transformed into a form to censor information in circulation, as stated in reports produced by the Central Committee: “Desp of the constant materialization of Marxist -Leninist theory and practice in the field of creativity, our Party has repeatedly brought to attention the danger of revisionist bourgeois degeneration...”62 The Directorate of Culture under directions from the Ministry of Education and Culture carried out analyzes and critiques regarding the content of artistic activities. As an example of the mechanism that was used for artistic activities in a critical report on the annual year of the theatre was written: 57. Online publication of the Albanian Constitution of 1976,:8 : http://eudo-citizenship.eu/NationalDB/docs/ALB%20Kushtetuta%20 e%20Republikes%20Socialiste%20Popullore%20e%20Shqiperise%201976.pdf 58. Ylber Merdani graduated from teacher education in 1959. His family was famous as hearsay traders in the city. After the Communist regime was established in the country, the Merdani family was interned and imprisoned. Ylber Merdani was sentenced in 1969 to eight years in prison and four years of civil rights loss on charges of "Agitation and Propaganda through his Poems." He was sententod in the Spaçi prison. In Spaç he also experienced the famous revolt of May 21-23, 1973. In 1977 he was released from Spaç Prison, but in the winter of that year he was interned in Shtylle, Kca 59. Interview with Ylber Merdani, Shkodra, June 2019 60. Hysen Kica was born in a village near the town of Bulqiza in 1947. Together with his bro,ther he tried to cross the Shkodra border, but they couldn'k made it, on the way back he was captured by police forces and sent to the investigator in the city of Shkodra. During the investigation, they found journals and letters and artifacts that add to the accusaion of "agitation and propaganda", ultimately denouncing him to 14 years in prison. Hysen Kica served 3 years and 7 months in jail until he was released after the collapse of the system in 1990. He has been devoted to artistic writing since the collapse of the communist system. 61. Interview with Hysen Kica, Tirana, July 2019 62. Retrieved from Central State Archives, found 511, file 111, p.20. y.1965