Docs to get rid of, but no shredder?
It was 1990 and Albania was an isolated nation with few friends. Atlas Obscura says that the communists knew that the end was near for their government. It was necessary to get rid of documents detailing their crimes that had
accumulated during 46 years of tyranny and murder. Paper shredders were not available, so government officials liquefied the incriminating files with water and the mixing machines used to knead dough. Once the documents were reduced to a slurry, they were surreptitiously dumped in rivers and in the countryside. 29,000 files were turned into this uncooked dough, leaving only about 10 per cent to survive the democratic revolution of 1991-1992 to the present day.
Just like a bike
Saved in the south
