Mukja Agreement

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The Mukja Agreement was an agreement on cooperation between the various anti-fascist partisan groups that were active in Albania during World War II . It was concluded on August 2, 1943 between the Communist Party (also on behalf of the other groups in the National Liberation Front) and the national Albanian movement Balli Kombëtar .

At the meeting in Mukaj ( Albanian also Mukja and Mukje ), a village in the mountains north of Tirana , it was agreed to set up joint command structures for the partisan units in which both sides should be represented equally. Political decisions were also made. The liberation struggle should also extend to pre-war Yugoslav Kosovo . There they wanted to hold a referendum after the victory to clarify whether the province should remain with Yugoslavia or be united with Albania . Free elections should be held in Albania after the war.

The Mukja Agreement was not put into practice. The Central Committee of the CP and the National Liberation Front did not want to cede any command post to Balli Kombëtar because the organization had so far only fought a few military actions against the occupiers and, moreover, was not prepared to integrate into the front. Both the communists and Balli Kombëtar assumed that they would be able to take power alone after the war.

Another important factor in the failure of the agreement was the relationship between the Albanian and Yugoslav communists. Tito was not ready to accept the Kosovo agreements. He had the Albanian Communist Party leader Enver Hoxha informed of this through his emissary Svetozar Vukmanović-Tempo . Hoxha then distanced himself from the content of the agreement and put the blame on those misguided comrades who had signed in Mukja without his consent.

As the war continued, the communists and Balli Kombëtar also fought each other.

literature

  • Robert Elsie: Historical dictionary of Albania. (= European historical dictionaries. 42). Lanham 2004. ISBN 0-8108-4872-4 .
  • Uran Butka: Mukja. Shans i bashkimit peng i tradhtisë. Tiranë 1998.