(Due interessanti stralci dalla stampa enverista dell'Albania a
cavallo tra gli anni Settanta ed Ottanta dimostrano come, nonostante
le differenze ideologiche ed il diverso atteggiamento rispetto alla
questione nazionale nei Balcani, Enver Hoxha anteponesse comunque la
difesa dell'indipendenza degli Stati balcanici, nati dalla comune
lotta contro il nazifascismo, alla polemica verso la Jugoslavia. Una
linea di solidarietà internazionalista dimenticata e cancellata
dall'odierno sciovinismo - nazionalista, filooccidentale e
neofascista - dei revanscisti pan-albanesi...)
http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv7n2/albyugo.htm
The Albanian People Will Stand By the Yugoslav Peoples Enver Hoxha
How did the Party of Labour of Albania under the leadership of
Enver Hoxha look upon its role in the event of an imperialist attack
upon Yugoslavia? The following excerpt from a ‘Zeri i Popullit’
Editorial of 1980 and which was broadcast by Radio Tirana on January
19th 1980 reminds us that in such an event Enver Hoxha had argued
that the Albanian people would stand by the Yugoslav peoples.
No. 1
The Albanian people, who know the past of the Yugoslavian people
well, have the unflinching conviction that they are not intimidated
by any threat or blackmail, that if the necessity arises they will
know how to fight with courage and bravery against any attack of the
enemies no matter where it comes from: the Yugoslav peoples are not
the sort who back down in the face of threats. They know how to fight
with self-sacrifice to defend their freedom, won with so much
bloodshed and sacrifice.
We Albanians have had and still have irreconcilable ideological
differences with the Yugoslav leadership. We have always and will
continue to criticize the anti-Marxist system of self-administration;
we have fought and will fight determinedly against the Yugoslav and
modern revisionism, for the defence of the purity of Marxism-
Leninism; we have and will continue to interest ourselves in the
rights which the Albanians of Kosova, Macedonia, Montenegro, should
enjoy on the basis of the Yugoslav constitution.
World opinion knows and is clear on this stand of ours.
The foreign policy of our country in the stand towards our
neighbours, continues Zeri i Popullit, has never and will never
change. Our republic has made and will make all-round efforts for the
normal development of trading, cultural and other relations with
them. We have publicly stated that Albania will never permit
foreigners to use its territory as a base against Yugoslavia or
Greece, that we will support the Yugoslav and Greek peoples in the
struggle for national freedom, independence and sovereignty. Hence
not only will nothing bad come to them from Albania, but they will be
aided. The peoples of the Balkans do not threaten anyone, but neither
do they fear threats just as they do not fear aggressive war, which
others may launch and which they know how to cope with successfully...
In the face of the threats of the Soviet, American and other
imperialist aggressors against Yugoslavia, the Albanian people adhere
to what comrade Enver Hoxha said at the Seventh Congress of the Party
of Labour of Albania, that in the case of an eventual attack by the
Soviet Union or any power against Yugoslavia, the Albanian people
will stand by the Yugoslav peoples.
Thus everyone can rest assured that if the question arises of the
defence of freedom and independence from imperialist aggressors of no
matter what kind, the Albanians and Yugoslavs will once more fight
together against the common enemies as they fought in the past.
Historical facts prove this. Our divisions went and fought in
Yugoslavia in the same trenches as the Yugoslav partisans, against
German fascism and triumphed. We Albanians fight for freedom and
justice and like brave fighters Albanians are cool-headed. But when
anyone tries to trample them underfoot, then the rifle speaks.
From: ‘Socialist Albania’, journal of the India-Albania Friendship
Association, July 1980, No. 14, pp. 3-5.
No. 2
Our policy towards Yugoslavia has not changed and will not change,
provided that the Yugoslav government, too, is correct towards us.
The declaration of the Party of Labour of Albania, that in case of
any eventual aggression against Yugoslavia by the Soviet Union or
some other power the Albanian people will stand by the Yugoslav
peoples, will always hold good. But the Yugoslav side must respond to
this stand of Albania with just and correct actions towards us.
From: Enver Hoxha ‘Report on the Activity of the C.C. of the Party
of Labour of Albania’ submitted to the 7th Congress of the Party of
Labour of Albania, November 1, 1976,Tirana, 1977, pp. 202-203.
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cavallo tra gli anni Settanta ed Ottanta dimostrano come, nonostante
le differenze ideologiche ed il diverso atteggiamento rispetto alla
questione nazionale nei Balcani, Enver Hoxha anteponesse comunque la
difesa dell'indipendenza degli Stati balcanici, nati dalla comune
lotta contro il nazifascismo, alla polemica verso la Jugoslavia. Una
linea di solidarietà internazionalista dimenticata e cancellata
dall'odierno sciovinismo - nazionalista, filooccidentale e
neofascista - dei revanscisti pan-albanesi...)
http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv7n2/albyugo.htm
The Albanian People Will Stand By the Yugoslav Peoples Enver Hoxha
How did the Party of Labour of Albania under the leadership of
Enver Hoxha look upon its role in the event of an imperialist attack
upon Yugoslavia? The following excerpt from a ‘Zeri i Popullit’
Editorial of 1980 and which was broadcast by Radio Tirana on January
19th 1980 reminds us that in such an event Enver Hoxha had argued
that the Albanian people would stand by the Yugoslav peoples.
No. 1
The Albanian people, who know the past of the Yugoslavian people
well, have the unflinching conviction that they are not intimidated
by any threat or blackmail, that if the necessity arises they will
know how to fight with courage and bravery against any attack of the
enemies no matter where it comes from: the Yugoslav peoples are not
the sort who back down in the face of threats. They know how to fight
with self-sacrifice to defend their freedom, won with so much
bloodshed and sacrifice.
We Albanians have had and still have irreconcilable ideological
differences with the Yugoslav leadership. We have always and will
continue to criticize the anti-Marxist system of self-administration;
we have fought and will fight determinedly against the Yugoslav and
modern revisionism, for the defence of the purity of Marxism-
Leninism; we have and will continue to interest ourselves in the
rights which the Albanians of Kosova, Macedonia, Montenegro, should
enjoy on the basis of the Yugoslav constitution.
World opinion knows and is clear on this stand of ours.
The foreign policy of our country in the stand towards our
neighbours, continues Zeri i Popullit, has never and will never
change. Our republic has made and will make all-round efforts for the
normal development of trading, cultural and other relations with
them. We have publicly stated that Albania will never permit
foreigners to use its territory as a base against Yugoslavia or
Greece, that we will support the Yugoslav and Greek peoples in the
struggle for national freedom, independence and sovereignty. Hence
not only will nothing bad come to them from Albania, but they will be
aided. The peoples of the Balkans do not threaten anyone, but neither
do they fear threats just as they do not fear aggressive war, which
others may launch and which they know how to cope with successfully...
In the face of the threats of the Soviet, American and other
imperialist aggressors against Yugoslavia, the Albanian people adhere
to what comrade Enver Hoxha said at the Seventh Congress of the Party
of Labour of Albania, that in the case of an eventual attack by the
Soviet Union or any power against Yugoslavia, the Albanian people
will stand by the Yugoslav peoples.
Thus everyone can rest assured that if the question arises of the
defence of freedom and independence from imperialist aggressors of no
matter what kind, the Albanians and Yugoslavs will once more fight
together against the common enemies as they fought in the past.
Historical facts prove this. Our divisions went and fought in
Yugoslavia in the same trenches as the Yugoslav partisans, against
German fascism and triumphed. We Albanians fight for freedom and
justice and like brave fighters Albanians are cool-headed. But when
anyone tries to trample them underfoot, then the rifle speaks.
From: ‘Socialist Albania’, journal of the India-Albania Friendship
Association, July 1980, No. 14, pp. 3-5.
No. 2
Our policy towards Yugoslavia has not changed and will not change,
provided that the Yugoslav government, too, is correct towards us.
The declaration of the Party of Labour of Albania, that in case of
any eventual aggression against Yugoslavia by the Soviet Union or
some other power the Albanian people will stand by the Yugoslav
peoples, will always hold good. But the Yugoslav side must respond to
this stand of Albania with just and correct actions towards us.
From: Enver Hoxha ‘Report on the Activity of the C.C. of the Party
of Labour of Albania’ submitted to the 7th Congress of the Party of
Labour of Albania, November 1, 1976,Tirana, 1977, pp. 202-203.
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Message Sent by John Paul Cupp.
SOURCE: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gmlyu/