Dashnor Kaloçi
Memorie.al publishes an archival document extracted from the fund of the former Central Committee of the ALP dated August 6, 1960, where Enver Hoxha sent a letter to the senior leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, ‘ complains to the Kremlin leaders about the attitude and actions of some diplomats of the Russian embassy in Tirana, who according to him, had begun to gather information in Tirana, Durres, Elbasan, etc., speaking and making negative propaganda against the ALP- and negatively influencing Koço Tashko, chairman of the Party’s Control and Revision Commission, whom they had withdrawn from hostile positions, or Ambassador Ivano, who had told Albanian generals at Rinas airport, asking: the army remains loyal ”?!,
“We note with great sorrow that Comrade K.I. Novikov, an adviser to the Soviet embassy in Tirana, has tried many times to gather information from cadres and officials of our Party, such as in Tirana, Elbasan, Durres, and elsewhere, outside of any party rules and norms that define our fraternal relations. on issues so important to our Party, such as those considered by the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Party, which relate to the general political line of the Albanian Labor Party. He spoke openly to our Party cadres against the General Party line and agitated them to put them in the wrong position against the Central Committee of our Party. The first secretary of the Soviet embassy, F.P. Bespallov, together with the ambassador, Comrade V.I. Ivanov, and the embassy adviser, Comrade K.I. Novikov, through impermissible methods in relations between Marxist-Leninist parties, has been able to negatively influence Koço Tashko, chairman of the Revision Commission in our Party, by drawing him into open positions against the general line of our Party. “. This is stated, among other things, in a letter from Enver Hoxha dated August 6, 1960, sent to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in which the Albanian communist leader complained to the Kremlin’s senior leadership about the attitude and activities of some diplomats. of the staff of the Russian Embassy in Tirana, headed by Ambassador Ivanov, who, according to him, “have interfered in the internal affairs of the Albanian Labor Party, speaking and making propaganda against it and negatively influencing the Chairman of the Commission. Koço Tashko, the Party’s Audit Control, withdrawing him to open positions against the ALP ”, etc. In addition to this letter, in early August 1960, when official Tirana’s relations with Moscow had already suffered a major setback, Enver Hoxha began cracking down on Liri Belishova, a member of the Politburo and secretary of the ALP Central Committee for Propaganda. , art and culture, as well as Koço Tashko, a former deputy foreign minister and Albania’s ambassador to Moscow, criticizing them as “anti-party” and accusing them of “hostile activity” against the ALP. In this regard, we are familiar with the past three articles published by Memorie.al, and in this article we are publishing Enver Hoxha’s letter to the Kremlin leadership, giving it a full account as it is in the relevant file of the former Committee’s fund. Central of the ALP.
Enver’s letter to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
LETTER DEDICATED TO THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION CONTINUED WITH THE OPEN INTERVENTION IN THE INTERNAL WORKS OF THE ALPHA AND THE ALBANIAN STATE FROM SOME OF THE BASIC FUNCTIONS IN OUR AMBASSADOR
Moscow
August 6, 1960
The Albanian Labor Party, in its relations with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, has been guided by the great principles of Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism.
With great regret, we inform you that recently, after the Meeting of Representatives of Communist and Workers’ Parties in Bucharest, we note a radical change in the attitude of some people who are officials of the Soviet Embassy in Tirana, a position which can not bring only harm to the friendly relations between the two countries and our two parties, because it has to do with the open interference of these persons in the internal affairs of the Party and our state, contrary to the Marxist-Leninist attitude that has always been held by the people. Soviets to our internal affairs.
We note with great sorrow that Comrade K.I. Novikov, an adviser to the Soviet embassy in Tirana, has tried many times to gather information from cadres and officials of our Party, such as in Tirana, Elbasan, Durres, and elsewhere, outside of any party rules and norms that define our fraternal relations. on issues so important to our Party, such as those considered by the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Party, which relate to the general political line of the Albanian Labor Party.
He spoke openly to our Party cadres against the General Party line and agitated them to put them in the wrong position against the Central Committee of our Party. The first secretary of the Soviet embassy, F.P. Bespallov, together with the ambassador, Comrade V.I. Ivanov, and the embassy adviser, Comrade K.I. Novikov, through impermissible methods in relations between Marxist-Leninist parties, has been able to negatively influence Koço Tashko, chairman of the Revision Commission in our Party, drawing him into open positions against the general line of our Party.
Such an activity is a flagrant and impermissible interference in the internal affairs of our Marxist-Leninist Party, by these officials of the Soviet Embassy, it is an open activity against the unity of our Party and against its general line.
We are particularly moved by the recent stance of the Soviet Ambassador, Comrade Ivanov, who went so far in his unfriendly activity towards our Party that he had the courage to publicly address our generals and officers. Tirana airport, the strange and dubious question: “Who is the army loyal to”?
Our generals gave him the right answer right away and came to the Central Committee of the Party with tears in his eyes, revolted by such a tendentious question from Comrade Ivanov and asking the logical question: “why does he ask such a question? “Why should he question the loyalty of our army to the Party, the homeland, the people, and the socialist camp?”
This attitude of the Ambassador of the Soviet Union, Comrade Ivanov, is completely inadmissible for all of us. These facts (and there are many others like these) have disappointed us immensely.
To this day we have turned a deaf ear and turned a blind eye to the actions of these officials of the Soviet embassy, and we have done so only for the sake of the great importance that exists between our two countries.
But now that the actions of some Soviet embassy officials against the overall line and unity of our Party are taking on unbearable proportions, we feel it is our duty to inform you socially in the hope that you will take appropriate action.
These actions of some officials of the Soviet embassy do not help strengthen the friendship that exists between our two countries, they damage the internationalist relations that exist between our two parties.
We feel it is our duty to inform you of these things, to speak to you openly and fairly, as we have always done, as the great Lenin Party itself teaches us. We do not understand why such a change occurs in the attitude of these officials of the Soviet embassy.
They speak openly with our cadres against the stance taken by our Party at the Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties in Bucharest and strive intensively to disrupt the unity of our Party and its leadership.
Our Party’s position at the Bucharest Meeting is as clear as sunlight. At that meeting, our party openly and clearly expressed its views and no one is allowed to distort the reality of our Party’s positions.
Just as we spoke openly at the Bucharest Meeting about the issues raised at that meeting, so we will speak openly and clearly at the next meeting in Moscow, as decided by all the parties that attended. Bucharest Gathering.
No one is allowed, for any reason, to interfere in our internal affairs in order to change the right Marxist-Leninist attitude of our Party, as some officials of the Soviet Embassy in Tirana are trying to do.
Our party, like all other Marxist-Leninist parties, has the right to have its own point of view and to express its views freely, as the great Lenin teaches us.
This right, to express its views freely, has been given to our Party by Marxism-Leninism, and it is utterly impermissible to make attempts to present our Party as if it had recently entered a crooked path, as they endeavor. To “prove” some officials of the Soviet embassy in Tirana.
Anyone who tries to distort the reality of our Party’s position is seriously mistaken. The Albanian Labor Party has been, is, and will be the whole faithful life of Marxism-Leninism, as evidenced by the whole glorious path that our Party has traversed since its establishment until today.
The Albanian Labor Party, as always, will fight with all its might to stay loyal to Marxism-Leninism until the end, as the great Lenin teaches us.
The Central Committee of our Party considers that the change in the position held by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and by the Albanian Labor Party at the Bucharest Meeting should not be a cause for interference in each other’s internal affairs by any person, because this would not help the issue and would harm the common interests between our two parties.
We are convinced that you will take the necessary measures not to repeat such cases in the activity of the officials of the Soviet Embassy in Tirana.
Communist greetings
On behalf of the Central Committee of the Albanian Labor Party
First Secretary
Enver Hoxha
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