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Thomas Karathanos was 25 years old when the Communists took over Albania, and his life has never been the same since. The Communists slowly tortured his father to death, because as a Greek and a small merchant he was considered "an enemy of the state." They put young Thomas in forced-labor camps for five years, and when he was released they put him in the army. When he was finally released last year, he returned to his village of Lazati to find that the schoolteacher had drowned himself and the storekeeper had slashed his wrists and killed himself when...
...anything, Britain and the U.S. tried to stall the pending pact, lest it irritate Italy, which is still at odds with Tito over Trieste.) The agreement will mobilize a combined army of 800,000 tough fighters to repel any attack from or through the Communist countries of Bulgaria and Albania.* It will also set up a consultative assembly, representing the three Parliaments, to discuss mutual problems (Yugoslavia alone of the three does not belong to NATO...
...offset this get-together, Red satellite Albania last week entertained Russia's Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, who guided his 12,000-ton cruiser Maximov and two destroyers through the Dardanelles and up the Adriatic, in full sight of Tito's ship...
...village of Vavouri was no exception. One day in 1948 the Red raiders aimed their guns at 84-year-old Stamatia Moschou and her family, and ordered them to march toward Albania. Along with 300 of their fellow villagers, the Moschou family−grandmother Stamatia, her daughter Alexandra, her grandsons Christopher, 15, and Evanghelos, I, her granddaughters Dimitra, Maria and Spiridoula−were driven across the mountains for five days and most of four nights. For close to a year they were herded from camp to camp, between Albania and Yugoslavia. At last they were thrown into the hold...
Serbia, Rumania, Georgia, Poland and Albania. His concern encompasses some 200 million souls...