1948-49. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History

The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001.


1948–49

Relations between Albania and Yugoslavia, which had been particularly close, were broken off as a result of the latter's exclusion from the Cominform.	1

1949, June 10

Koci Xoxe, the Communist former vice premier, and a number of other high officials, were convicted of being Yugoslav agents. Xoxe was executed on June 11. As arrests for sabotage and espionage continued, large numbers of Albanians fled the country.	2

1950, May 28

A general election confirmed the regime of Marshal Enver Hoxha. Albania fell completely under Soviet domination, joining the Cominform and concluding a treaty of friendship with the USSR.	3

1953, July 24

A government shuffle stripped Hoxha of his posts as minister of defense and foreign affairs but let him remain premier. Lt. Gen. Mehmet Shehu, Hoxha's rival, remained as interior minister and head of the police, but lost his post as secretary of the Central Committee of the (Communist) Labor Party.	4

Dec. 22

Diplomatic relations between Albania and Yugoslavia resumed, having been disrupted since 1948.	5


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