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...once, Khrushchev switched his attack to the smallest and least important of Red countries-Albania (see map). He complained that the Albanian Communist Party had remained Stalinist and added darkly: "We cannot make a concession on that fundamental point, either to the Albanian leaders-or to anyone else...
...Same End. With the two major Red powers locked in a struggle for leadership, and East and West choosing sides, little Albania at week's end was sounding more and more like the voice of the opposition. From Tirana, the Albanian radio sneered at Khrushchev as an "anti-Marxist" and a "splitter" of Communist unity. The radio crowed: "We shall win because we are not alone. Albania will not bow before the attacks, calumnies or pressures of Khrushchev and his followers...
...there is solid and accumulating evidence of the growing divisions between Communism's Big Two. In full public view, the Red Chinese have effectively pulled Albania into the Peking orbit, so much so that Albania rounded up Russian spies for trial, executed a gaggle of pro-Khrushchev Albanian party officials, closed down Russia's submarine base at Valona. Western diplomats in Geneva have been astonished to find Soviet delegates confiding that scores of Russian atomic technicians have been withdrawn from China in recent months, after China complained that the Russians were not supplying reactors they needed to make...
...wheat. After a delay of 45 days, the Soviet Union promised us 10,000 tons instead of 50,000 tons-15 days' supply of wheat to be delivered in September and October!" This, declared Hoxha bitterly, was "unbearable pressure. The Soviet rats were able to eat while the Albanian people were dying of hunger...
...went home to start his own kind of cleanup. He ordered Nikita Khrushchev's picture removed from all public buildings in Albania and replaced with pictures of Stalin. Russian personnel at the Soviet submarine base at Saseno on the Adriatic are constantly spied upon; Soviet pilots at the Albanian airfields under their control cannot get transport off the base. A month ago, two government officials were arrested and charged with having passed Albanian state secrets to the Russians-the first civil servants in any Communist country known to have been persecuted for collaboration with the "Socialist motherland." Yugoslav diplomats...