Bad Biography

Everyone I work with is old enough to remember the communist era.  The regime fell 17 years ago, depending on how one cares to date it, so one doesn't have to be all that old to remember.  The youngest guy at work is about 40, so they were young adults in 1991/2.  One of the guys has told me that his grandfather, or as they say, the father of his mother, used to own 1000 hectares, which were confiscated.  To this day they have not gotten it back, and most likely won't.  The father of his father had a fairly elegant hotel in Tirana by 1940 standards, which was confiscated.  They did get that back, although all the porcelain and silver were gone, and the government demanded they pay for the cheap contents, which they evidently didn't do.  They now rent it out as a dormitory for a private university nearby, known by its initials as UFO University.  The brother of his father was executed by the communists during the post-WWII power struggle.  They never knew for sure, but always assumed he was executed.  During the 90s they started asking around and found out where he was buried.  

My coworker couldn't go to university because he had, as he says, a bad biography.  His brother somehow got into university but got kicked out after a year because they discovered his bad biography.

Who knew the communists were like the Old Testament Jews, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the sons, for generation after generation.