ON THE COMINFORM

12 The Cominform, Enver Hoxha and the PSRA

In April 1946, the Yugoslav revisionists had advised the CPA to accept and conclude treaties with the American imperialists. [!]

The minutes of the meeting between Tito and Stalin in Moscow on 27 May 1946, prepared by the CPY leadership, show that Tito concealed his hostile intentions towards Albania and posed to Stalin as a "promoter and protector" of Albania. In truth, Tito had long since decided to make Albania the 7th Republic of Yugoslavia. He concealed this from Stalin, who only found out later from Enver Hoxha himself. When asked by Stalin, Tito gave a negative assessment of Enver Hoxha. In truth, Tito left no stone unturned to overthrow Enver Hoxha.

Shortly before the Cominform was formed, Enver Hoxha had his first meeting with Stalin on 16 July 1947 in Moscow, where Enver Hoxha had already reported on the conflicts with Tito. Enver Hoxha met Stalin for the second time on 21 March 1949, at a time when the Titoists had already been expelled from the Cominform. Enver Hoxha describes the period between the first and second meeting with Stalin as follows:

"The period from the beginning of November 1947 to March, April 1948 will go down in history as one of the most difficult and dangerous periods that our party and our people have ever gone through." (Enver Hoxha "The Titoists", page 393).

Tito wanted to annex Albania and liquidate the CPA. This victorious battle against Titoism was one of the most glorious battles of the CPA in the history of the struggle against modern revisionism.

At the 11th Plenum of the CC of the PLA and at the 1st Party Congress, the crimes of the Titoists were exposed and condemned [see for this the documents of Enver Hoxha and the PLA, which we have now published in Albanian and German].

Enver Hoxha:

Paper delivered at the Tirana Party Conference, on the analysis and conclusions of the 11th Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Albania.

4 October 1948

(Excerpt from Volume 1 of the Selected Works - pages 702- 802)

http://ciml.250x.com/archive/hoxha/english/enver_hoxha_selected_works_volume_1_eng.pdf

Enver Hoxha:

Report at the 1st Party Congress of the PAA.

8 November 1948

(Excerpt: Selected Works, Volume 2; Chapter III THE PARTY - Struggle against Titoism, pages 106 - 122)

http://ciml.250x.com/archive/hoxha/english/enver_hoxha_selected_works_volume_2_eng.pdf

Enver Hoxha:

THE STRUGGLE AGAINST TITOISM AND THE DEVIATIONS

FROM THE PARTY LINE

31 March 1952

(Excerpt: Selected Works, Volume 2; Report to the 2nd Party Congress of the PLA, pages 239 -254)

http://ciml.250x.com/archive/hoxha/english/enver_hoxha_selected_works_volume_2_eng.pdf

In his second meeting with Stalin, Enver Hoxha said:

"In the light of these documents [Enver Hoxha meant Stalin's 3 letters to the CPJ as well as the resolution of the Cominform - adopted at the second conference]

, which appeared at a very critical moment for our Party and our people, the CC gained complete clarity about the character and aims of Yugoslav interference in Albania."

To this Stalin replied:

"Our letters to the Yugoslav leadership do not contain everything, for many things came to light only later. We did not know that the Yugoslavs, under the pretext of defending your country against an invasion by the Greek fascists, wanted to bring units of their army into the VRA. In doing so, they tried to proceed clandestinely. In reality, they had thoroughly hostile intentions, because they wanted to change the situation in Albania. The information you gave us about the matter was important, because otherwise we would not have known anything about the divisions they wanted to move into your territory. The Yugoslavs have made insinuations that the Soviet Union has allegedly approved this move! If you think that you should have been more vigilant, then it must be said that in reality not only you but also others lacked vigilance with regard to relations with Yugoslavia."