Liri Belishova

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Liri Belishova (born October 19, 1923 in Belishova, Skrapar , † April 23, 2018 ) was an Albanian politician of the Party of Labor of Albania (PPSh).

biography

Liri Belishova graduated from the teachers' seminar in Tirana and trained as a nurse. After its founding on November 8, 1941, she took on leading positions in the PPSh and temporarily studied in the Soviet Union . She was active in partisan combat, where she lost an eye. In autumn 1944 the Allies took her to Bari , Italy for medical care . In 1945 she married the Minister of Economic Affairs, Nako Spiru , who committed suicide in November 1947.

After the founding of the People's Republic of Albania on January 11, 1946, Belishova became a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the PPSh and a member of the Politburo of the PPSh in 1948. In 1953 she belonged to the delegation at the state funeral of Joseph Stalin, along with Vice Prime Minister Spiro Koleka , General Beqir Balluku , long-time finance minister Abdyl Këllezi and education and culture minister Ramiz Alia .

Between July 1954 and 1960 she was also the successor to Josif Pashko as secretary of the Central Committee and from 1958 to 1961 also secretary of the Presidium of the People's Assembly ( Kuvendi Popullor ) .

On September 9, 1960, she was released from office after being denounced by Hysni Kapo . Ramiz Alia became his successor as a member of the Politburo and Secretary of the Central Committee of the PPSh. The reason for her fall that she after breaking Albania with the Soviet Union and turning to China along with former ambassador in the USSR , Koço Tashko , and her second husband, Agriculture Minister Maqo Como, to the followers of Nikita Khrushchev counted .

On September 8, 1961, Enver Hoxha , the general secretary of the PPSh, also dismissed her as secretary of the parliamentary presidium.

She was initially sentenced to death as a representative of the “pro-Soviet and revisionist wing of the PPSh”, but was then placed under house arrest as a political prisoner for thirty years until 1991 .

After the fall of communism in 1991, she charged that Enver Hoxha had killed her husband.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d J.F. Brown: Background Notes to Albania's Party Congress - Special Report. In: Open Society Archives. February 2, 1961, accessed October 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Ndërron jetë Liri Belishova. In: oranews.tv. April 23, 2018, Retrieved April 26, 2018 (Albanian).
  3. ^ Profiles: Liri Belishova
  4. ^ Owen Pearson: Albania as dictatorship and democracy: from isolation to the Kosovo War 1946-1998. 2006, ISBN 1-84511-105-2 , p. 573. (books.google.de)
  5. ^ Owen Pearson, p. 482.
  6. ↑ a b Owen Pearson, p. 573.
  7. ↑ Idrit Idrizi: The Concept of the New Man in Communist Albania (1961–1971). Diploma thesis. University of Vienna, 2010, p. 26. (othes.univie.ac.at ; PDF file; 744 kB).
  8. ^ Roderick MacFarquhar: The Origins of the Cultural Revolution: The Coming of the Cataclysm, 1961-1966. 1997, ISBN 0-19-214997-0 , p. 531. (books.google.de)
  9. ↑ Christian F. Ostermann: The Warsaw Pact: from founding to collapse: 1955 to 1991. 2008, ISBN 978-3-86153-504-1 , p. 35 f. (books.google.de)
  10. ↑ Enver Hoxha: We Shall go to Moscow Not With Ten Banners, But With Only One, With the Banner of Marxism-Leninism (Speech at the 18th Plenum of the CC of the PLA Concerning Liri Belishova's Grave Mistakes in Line). September 6, 1960. (marxists.org)
  11. ^ Harry Hanak: Soviet foreign policy since the death of Stalin. 1972, ISBN 0-7100-7215-5 , p. 212. (books.google.de)
  12. ^ Borba Claims Terror Ruling in Albania. March 21, 1961. ( Memento from September 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  13. ↑ Teki Gjonzeneli: An angel forbidden to spread her wings. January 4, 2009. (deshmo.blogspot.com)
  14. ↑ Albania: The Black Sheep. In: TIME MAGAZINE. June 23, 1961. (time.com)
  15. ↑ Ana Lalaj, Christian F. Ostermann, Ryan Gage: "Albania is not Cuba." Sino-Albanian Summits and the Sino-Soviet Split. ( Memento of July 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 2.0 MB). In: Cold War International History Project Bulletin. Issue 16, pp. 183ff.
  16. ^ Enver Hoxha, The Defense of the Marxist-Leninist Line is Vital For Our Party and People and for International Communism (Contribution to the Discussion at the 18th Plenum of the CC of the PLA). September 7, 1960. (marxists.org)
  17. ↑ Albania: One Hero and Many Villains. Party leader Hodja settles accounts with his opponents - a ZETF document. www.zeit.de, January 14, 1983.
  18. ↑ Anita Niegelhell, Gabriele Ponisch: We are always on fire: reports from former political prisoners in communist Albania. 2001, ISBN 3-205-99290-3 , pp. 62, 144. (books.google.de)
  19. ↑ Owen Pearson, pp. 306, 573; see. Enver Hoxha's description in: The Titoites. Tirana 1982, p. 373ff. (marx2mao.com)
personal data
SURNAME Belishova, Liri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Albanian communist politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Belishova
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 2018