Word: albanians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite such divergencies, the four books form a fascinating mosaic of the contradictory character of the master spy, a man ruthlessly cold and dedicated to Communism professionally, but by all accounts a warm and likable man in his personal life. Philby dispatched hundreds of Albanian patriots to their deaths, in theory landing them in Albania to stir up resistance, but in fact sending them straight into the guns of the Albanian Communist troops, whom he had tipped off. But he worried over some innocent emigrants mistakenly interned as German agents during World War II. He also wept when...
Dedijer is a highly-respected academic with previous appointments at several British and American universities, including Harvard. His books include The Beloved Land and Yugoslav-Albanian Relations, which the U.S. government itself has republished. In 1954, he was expelled from Yugoslavia's Central Committee of Communists for his defense of free speech--and Rusk has now picked up the Central Committee's persecution...
...Greek living in Albania, Thomas Karathanos saw the Communists torture his father to death in 1944 and himself spent five years in forced-labor camps. In May of 1954, he and six surviving members of his family attempted to flee to Greece; Albanian border guards ambushed the party and slaughtered all save Karathanos, who made good his escape [TIME, July...
...American imperialists and Soviet revisionists are in no position to scare anyone, much less the heroic and inflexible Albanian people...
When Redford remonstrates, Fonda starts sniping-only to sign a false charmistice when her middle-class mother (Mildred Natwick) arrives. Before long, they are joined by a randy reprobate of a neighbor (Charles Boyer) known as "the Bluebeard of Tenth Street." Bluebeard leads the way to an Albanian hash house that serves such delicacies as black salad and ouzo. The foursome eventually wend their way home, whereupon Fonda and Redford drunkenly declare...