Word: albanians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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in Geneva have been astonished to find Soviet delegates confiding that scores of Russian atomic technicians have been withdrawn from China in recent months, after China complained that the Russians were not supplying reactors they needed to make...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...
Enver Hoxha (pronounced Ho-jah) sees enemies everywhere. He accuses neighboring Yugoslavia and Greece of planning to partition Albania between them, and he jailed an admiral of the Albanian navy (four subchasers, six minesweepers) as a collaborator in the farfetched plot. More recently he has developed a paranoid fear of Nikita Khrushchev. He apparently suspects that Khrushchev might try to bring Yugoslavia back into the Moscow fold by offering Tito a free hand to take over Albania. Hoxha has found one dependable ally, who is a safe 3,000 miles away-Red China. Alone among the European satellites, Albania openly...
Shehu seems to have asked for it. Albania is the one European satellite which seems to have chosen Peking in the intramural ideological conflict between Russia and Red China. In June, when Khrushchev summoned all the satellite party chiefs to Bucharest to ratify his policy of "peaceful" coexistence, Albanian Party Secretary Enver Hoxha was the only top Communist boss missing. At the U.N., Shehu was noticeably more vigorous than Khrushchev in speaking up for admission of Red China, impudently echoing Red China's scornful charge that Russian Communism is losing its ideological militancy because it is afraid of nuclear...