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Pravda and Izvestia printed friendly articles about Albania, and the Soviet Union dispatched fraternal greetings on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the "liberation" of Albania from Axis occupation. It was wasted effort. Albania flexed its puny muscles with an 85-minute parade through Tirana's normally trafficless streets, and the military display included a few rockets, probably donated by Red China. Albanian Party Boss Enver Hoxha ranted his way through a three-hour speech hailing the removal of Khrushchev but blasting the new Soviet leadership for its failure to rehabilitate Stalin, who, said Hoxha, was a great...
...evidently also agreed to stop calling each other dirty names. B. & K. even began patching up relations with Albania, Red China's vociferous ally in Europe, whose propagandists have called Khrushchev's followers "veritable criminals and sinister schemers." Radio Moscow beamed a message of good will to Tirana, praising Albania's "sovereignty and position in the world" and reiterating faith in the Soviet Union's "sublime internationalist duty" of aiding all fraternal parties. But the Albanians, cocky as always, refused to end their "open ideological war" on Khrushchevian revisionism...
...flyblown Albanian capital of Tirana, tough police had marched into and taken over five buildings that once served as Soviet embassy headquarters, before the two countries broke diplomatic ties in 1961. The buildings had been under the care of three Soviet "technicians," and the seizure followed an unsuccessful campaign to pressure the caretakers out by cutting off their water and electricity. For Russia it was injury added to insults. Albania's Red Boss Enver Hoxha once called Nikita Khrushchev a "revisionist" to his face, and reportedly ordered Soviet submarines out of Albania's naval base. In Moscow, Russian...
Glass of Champagne. Harking back to his favorite dream, De Gaulle saw in the misty future a far bigger Europe than most of his contemporaries could imagine. "We must envisage the day," he declared, "when, perhaps, in Warsaw, Prague, Pankow, Budapest, Bucharest, Sofia, Belgrade, Tirana and Moscow, the totalitarian Communist regime which still succeeds in keeping these peoples locked up will gradually come to an evolution compatible with our own transformation. Then there would be open to Europe, as a whole, prospects in keeping with its resources and its capabilities." His immediate goal was, no doubt, his pet Europe...
Joined Hands. Chou's visit to Tirana was not all politics. His New Year's Eve began at the workers' club of the Stalin textile plant, where Chou and his tubby Foreign Minister Chen Yi joined hands with Hoxha and other Albanian greeters to whirl gaily through local folk dances. Seeking more merriment, the group moved on to an army officers' club, where Chen Yi burbled: "Words fail me in this ocean of friendship!" and later to a party at the headquarters of the Artists and Writers Union. At last, amid shouts of "kan pei!" ("bottoms...