We greet all comrades
of the Albanian Section of the Comintern (SH),
all Albanian communists, workers and poor peasants,
all Stalinist-Hoxhaists, revolutionaries, workers and toilers all over the world !
Today, we are in mourning over the grave loss of Comrade Enver Hoxha, the Fifth Classic of Marxism-Leninism, whose heart stopped beating on April 11th 1985.
In connection with the Comintern's (SH) annual campaign to mark the 100th anniversary of Comrade Lenin's death, we are publishing Enver Hoxha's speech at the inauguration of the Lenin memorial in Tirana in this greeting address.
The Comintern (SH) has translated the Albanian text of his speech into various languages for the first time in 70 years.
[I apologise for any translation errors on my part - W. E.]
Speech at the rally in Tirana on the occasion of the inauguration of the Lenin monument
22 April 1954
Enver Hoxha
Dear comrades !
Today we celebrate the 84th anniversary of V.I. LENIN, the great genius of the revolution, the founder of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet state.
Lenin was a great teacher of the world proletarian movement. His teachings are the basis for all the outstanding victories of our people. Out of love and in honour of V. I. Lenin, out of loyalty to Leninism, our people today dedicate this monument in one of the most beautiful parks in the capital.
The news of Lenin's death filled the hearts of all workers with inexpressible grief. The day after Lenin's death, the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Communist Party of the Soviet Union circulated a message to the party and all its members. It said, among other things:
"Lenin's death is the heaviest blow that has struck the workers of the Soviet Union and the whole world since the conquest of power by the workers and peasants of Russia, and will deeply shake every worker and peasant not only in our republic but in all countries. The broadest masses of labourers throughout the world will mourn the loss of their greatest leader. He is no longer with us, but his work remains unshakeable.
The message emphasised that the Soviet government, expressing the will of the working masses, "will continue the work of Vladimir Ilyich and follow the path he marked out".
According to Marx, never before has the history of the great liberation movement of the proletariat produced such a gigantic figure as our deceased leader, teacher and friend. Everything that is truly great and heroic in the proletariat, bold spirit, iron, unbending, tenacious, all-conquering will, holy hatred, deadly hatred of slavery and oppression, revolutionary passion that moves mountains, boundless faith in the creative powers of the masses and colossal organisational genius, all this found its magnificent embodiment in Lenin, whose name became the symbol of a new world from West to East, from North to South."
This was the great Lenin, the founder of the great Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
He led the revolution, the Great October, which eliminated the bloody capitalist system and capitalism in one-sixth of the world. Lenin began his great war in the arena as a revolutionary of the working class at critical moments in human history. Capitalism had entered its final phase, the phase of decay, the phase of imperialism. As a genius, Lenin continued the struggle of Marx and Engels and further developed Marxism under the new historical conditions. At the beginning of his revolutionary activity, Lenin had to wage a titanic struggle for the organisation of the Russian and international proletariat, for its education and for its preparation for revolution.
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