women-from-albania

"I was quite impressed that the Albania that the English knew was not the one that is often reflected in the media, with a history of crime. They knew the small country in the Balkans with a wonderful climate and hospitable people. You couldn't help but feel proud when you heard this about your country."

"In that country, Atalanta was not there, they called it Albania. There were 120 of us girls and our names took a back seat because we were called by the country we represented. A great burden! But also pride."

"But he advised me to leave for Gjirokastër, because it is a good people. Bedriu told me that he had been looking for Tuku all morning, that he had heard that he had come. I told him that Tuku had come to Tirana for dinner with his mother and had left in the morning, that I had not met him either. Bedri then told me that; how he ran away at once and expressed regret that he did not meet. Since this day, I have not met Bedri, while I met Nedo in July on the train, by chance when I was traveling from Tirana to the beach of Durrës."

"We talked a little with Nado on the train and she told me that; Bedriu thinks that our problems are not being solved, and that in his opinion, as far as he listened to the radio, he said that even in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, not all things were in order. Then they met with Nado in September 1956, where the District Committee of Tirana was, I had then come from Berat and she came from Elbasan, and we met near the former Executive Committee of the Tirana district. She told me; u Dhora, they will say that we have made an appointment. We both agreed to meet in the flower garden before "Dajti", but I didn't go."

"Party today is a matter of honor. During this conversation, we walked ten to fifteen steps together, and without talking about anything else, we parted."

"From the first meeting I had with Bedri Spahiu until the end, I gave this information to Cvetozar Vučič, an official of the Yugoslav Legation, giving him the claim, the proceedings of the trial of Koçi Xoxes, which I got from the collection of the newspaper "Zeri i Populli". I also gave Cveto, the first conversation with Bedri Spahiu, as well as his opinions until the end."

"Among other things, Bedriu told me, to tell Tuku, not to sell the spoils at once, because according to his opinion, this situation would continue for a long time and that Bedriu told me that they were in a tight economic situation , but they did not sell the spoils. He continued and told me that; they say about me that I had 400,000 lek, they say this to discredit us, that we allegedly took measures for this situation. When we parted, we held each other's necks and shook my hand and he told me that; You are the first communist to whom I expressed my thoughts."

"In June 1956, I met Bedri and her wife in the flower garden near the "Dajti" hotel. Bedriu told me that he knew that I had moved to Gjirokastër, but that I told him that I will not go to Gjirokastër, and for that, I would sell a piano forte and live in Tirana. Bedriu told me that; what I thought was impossible, because they won't buy the piano and they won't let you compose songs."