Word: albanian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spanish civil war he fought in the Red-led Garibaldi Brigade. He went back to Albania in 1942 to lead the Tito-organized resistance movement along with Hoxha. In 1945 Shehu was shipped to Moscow, returned the next year to become chief of staff of the Albanian army and general secretary of the party. He is Albania's only Moscow-trained Communist leader. Shehu, a 100-proof career Stalinist, has more ability, guile, circumspection and hardheadedness than Hoxha...
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...
...Rome, homesick Albanian emigres listened attentively to what sounded like good news from home-a major Communist party split...
Koci Xoxe, Albanian Interior Minister, was shot in June...