New Albania*- Film Studio During 1975

of the consistent struggle waged by the Party of Labor of Albania both at the Bucharest Meeting as well as the Mos cow Meeting of 81 parties in November 1960. At Bucharest, the Party of Labor of Albania refused to pass judgment on the alleged mistakes of the Communist Party of China or to condemn it on the basis of materials full of slanderous ac cusations trumped up by the Soviet leadership without allowing the Com munist Party of China the time and pos sibility to read this material and present its own views. At the Moscow Meeting, our Party voiced its views with revolutionary courage and before international com munism, openly criticised the wrong line of the Soviet leadership on a series of major issues of principle. The Party of Labor of Albania did not made any concessions on principles >and refused to follow the revisionist line of the Khruschev group. A series of documents published in this volume, including re ports, speeches, discussions and talks, are vivid testimony to this. Also publi shed in this volume are a number of radiograms and letters sent from Tira na to Bucharest, Moscow, Peking, and New York, which carried the directive and revolutionary line of the Party of Labor of Albania. The ideological struggle between the Party of Labor of Albania and the So viet leadership became more abrasive after the Bucharest Meeting when the Khruschev group launched a severe at tack on the Party of Labor of Alba nia to force it to submit and follow the revisionist line. At first, the Khruschev group used two main methods, threats and demagogy. But it also acted through the Soviet Embassy in Tirana which carried on hostile and diversionist acti vity against the Party of Labor of Al bania and its leadership. The Khrusche vite Soviet leaders tried «to take the cas VOLUME 19 tle from within» but their attempts to make our Party adopt a revisionist line failed. The materials of this volume bring to light not only the activity of our exter OF THE WORKS OF nal enemies but also that of the inter nal enemies, and the class struggle which the Party of Labor of Albania wa COMRADE ENVER HOXHA ged against them to defend its steel like unity, its crystal-clear line, and the purity of Marxism-Leninism. This volume contains comrade Enver Hoxha's reports, speeches and contri butions to the discussion at the four plenums of the CC during the second half of 1960, as well as his letters addres sed to the Party branches. There are also Volume 19 of the works of comrade The main space in this volume is de a number of his contributions to the dis Enver Hoxha has just come off the press. voted to the documents in which the cussions in the Political Bureau and the Most of the documents of this volume strategic and tactical line of the Party Secretariat of the Central Committee. are published for the first time and are of Labor of Albania was worked out These materials deal with problems to of special importance. They are of the against the spread of modern revisionism do with raising the leading role of the period from June to December 1960. and, especially, against the anti-Marxist Party, with the ever greater strengthening This is a very complicated period when divisive activity of the Soviet leadership of the dictatorship of the proletariat, profound ideological and political dif headed by Khruschev. Up to that time with the further tempering of the unity ferences had arisen in the international the Party of Labor of Albania had in of the people around the Party, with its communist movement and in the rela formed the Soviet leadership of its op revolutionary education, political and tions among certain parties. As is stres position and reservations about a series ideological vigilance, and fighting rea sed in the preface to this volume, at of incorrect theses and activities. But diness to defend the Homeland. The ti this time the Party of Labor of Albania facts showed that the Khruschev group me required further enlivenment of the had to take decisions of special res was stubbornly, continuing on a wrong work of the Party and its uninterrupted ponsibility and to stand up openly be course fraught with danger for the inter fore the whole international communist national communist and workers’ move revolutionization. movement to defend Marxism-Leninism ment, a thing which was particularly The works of volume 19 constitute a from the new and dangerous trend clear in its organisation behind the sce valuable contribution to the revolutiona which was being crystalized within its nes at the Bucharest Meeting in June ry theory and practice of our Party, in ranks, namely, Khruschevite revisionism. 1960. This volume gives a i clear picture the gteat treqsi# of Marxism-Leninism. .2 NOVEMBER 29"- THE DAY CROWHING THE GREAT VICTORY Albania won its independence on November zation of the people in the war and as organs Army. The National-liberation Army freed ex 28, 1912, following five centuries of Ottoman oc of the People’s State Power, and so on. tensive zones including some cities. The First Di cupation. But before it had completed thirty The fascist invaders with all the means in vision advanced into the zones of Central Al years as an independent state, it fell prey to the their power strove to stamp out the national-li bania, completely upsetting the plans of the ene Italian fascists on April 7, 1939. beration movement. They perpetrated monstrous my. The Anti-fascist National-liberation Com Although betrayed by the ruling clique, who massacres. The jails and concentration camps mittee held its second meeting in the liberated opened the way to Italian fascism, the Albanian were filled with patriots. The fascist army laun city of Berat. At this meeting it was decided to people met the aggressors with armed resistance. ched a wide range of military operations in va turn the Antifascist National-liberation commit Bloody battles were waged at the ports of Du- rious liberated zones like Peza, Mallakastra, Di- tee into the Democratic Government of Alba rres, Vlora, Saranda and Shengjin. The fascists bra and Skrapar. They burned and destroyed nia: The biggest battle at this stage of the war paid in blood for even the first steps they took whole villages. However they failed to achieve was the battle to liberate Tirana. After 19 days on Albanian soil. But this was only a sponta their objective. On the contrary, the national-li of bloody fighting, the partisan brigades wiped neous resistance. The king fled almost before beration war continued to develop towards the out the remnants of the defeated Hitlerite troops. Mussolini's black shirts had really landed. The people's general uprising. On July 10, 1943, the Twelve day later, on November 29, 1944, with government was in disarray. The army was left General Staff of the National-liberation Army the liberation of the city of Shkodra, the libera without officers, without weapons and ammuni was set up. One month later saw the creation of tion of the whole country was completed. Thus, tion. The events of April 1939 profoundly shook the First Shock Brigade. the legendary anti-fascist national liberation war the Albanian people. Their very existence was After the capitulation of the Italian fasci sts of pur people was crowned with complete victo at stake. The fascists aimed to turn Albania into in September 1943, their place was occupied by ry. Albania was liberated in its entirety by its an Italian province. Salvation could not be ex the Hitlerite troops who attacked Albania from own sons and daughters, by its National-libera pected from the king, from the bougeoisie or all directions. The new invaders were met with tion Army, created, educated, and led by. the from any external power. It was the people armed resistance at Barmash, Konispol, Vlora, Communist Party of Albania, headed by comra themselves who had to solve this vital issue. In in the Tirana and Dibra districts and every de Enver Hoxha. the first place a leadership for action was called where. No demagogy of the enemy could weaken What was the balance sheet of this heroic for. And they found this leadership among the the fighting will and determination of the peo war? communists. Two years after the invasion, on Our people of about a million inhabitants November 8, 1941, to be precise, the Communist ple. Some traitor organizations, which the ene nailed down in the war more than fifteen Ita Party of Albania was founded, underground, my tried to exploit to deceive the people, were lian and German divisions, and put out of action in the capital, Tirana. Although newly set up forced to show their real features as organiza about seventy thousand enemies killed, woun and numbering only 200 members at that time, tions in the service of the Hitlerite invaders. ded or captured. As an active participant of the Party took upon itself the great historic With a view to crushing the National-liberation the anti-fascist coalition, Albania carried a re” task of leading the Anti-fascist National-libera Army, the Hitlerites organized major offensives latively heavy burden on its shoulders. During tion War. And it accomplished this task with with the forces of two army corps (the 21st and the war seven hundred thousand fascist soldiers success. Comrade Enver Hoxha, who was then 22nd) during the whole winter of 1943-44. Ne trampled the twenty-eight thousand square ki only 33 years of age, as elected to the leader vertheless, the National-liberation Army, sup lometers of Albanian soil, inflicting terrible da ship of the Party, at the head of its Central Com ported by the people and guided by its General mage on the people.

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