Albania and the Sino-Soviet conflict

Prifti, Peter R.

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“…After the USSR's invasion of Czechoslovakia, Enver Hoxha considered the Soviet Union the main threat to his Albania and feared a potential invasion from the armies of the Warsaw Treaty [43,44]. Driven by his paranoia, in Stalinist style Hoxha again set about to purge all those social groups he perceived as a threat to his power and which, according to him, would allegedly cooperate with foreign powers for a regime change.…”

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From Missionaries of Socialism to Spies of Imperialism: The Shifting Position of Soviet Women in Communist Albania

Hoxha

2021

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After the establishment of the communist regime in Albania, many Albanian students, mainly males, went to study in the Mecca of Revolution—the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR). Many of them fell in love there and married Soviet girls who returned with them to the tiny Balkan country to build socialism with their Albanian husbands. These women were considered as missionaries who were helping Albania to build a communist future. In 1960, however, their position changed when the Albanian leadership refused de-Stalinization and denounced the Soviet Union as an imperialist power. After Enver Hoxha’s split with Khrushchev, many Soviet women left Albania, but others decided to remain with their husbands in that country. Albanian authorities, considering Soviet women spies of the KGB (The Soviet Committee of State Security), persecuted many of them.

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Section: Living With a Stigma: Soviet Women In Isolated Albaniamentioning

confidence: 99%