Word: abedin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, Albanian anti-Communist emigres in Rome reported a hair-raising story of Shehu's Stalinesque qualities: at a central committee meeting in Tirana several weeks ago attended by an unnamed Soviet colonel, a complaint was made by Vice Minister of Industry Abedin Shehu (no kin to Mehmet Shehu) that Albania was not getting from Russia the military help it needed "to defend itself from Yugoslavia and Greece." In the course of a committee wrangle over this, Abedin Shehu was accused of Trotskyism...
According to the emigre Albanians' story, Mehmet Shehu pulled out a revolver and killed Abedin Shehu on the spot. The next day Radio Tirana reported that Abedin Shehu had committed suicide. "As a result there have been many arrests. In Tirana four buildings in Dibra Street have been converted into prisons...
...Enemy Activity." Albania's Communist paper, Zeri i Popullit (Voice of the People), conceded that there had been a party purge. It scolded against "the Fascist gang in Belgrade, and, recently, the anti-party activities of Abedin Shehu . . . enemy activity inside our party...