With Stalin · Memoirs from my Meetings with Stalin

Neither man needs an introduction. This book chronicles comrade Enver's five meetings with Joseph Stalin that happened between the years of 1947-1951.

Originally released in 1981 (in Albanian), immediately banned in most of the world, incl. the Socialist block. Now being out of print for decades...here as an e-book for the first time. See for yourself why Enver Hoxha liked Joseph Stalin so much. Before "they" ban it again! Quotes from the e-book:

"Let us begin," he said addressing me. "What are you waiting for? Do you think the waiters will come to serve us? There you have the dishes, take them, lift the lids and start eating, or you'll go supperless."

He laughed again heartily, that exhilarating laugh of his that went right to one's heart. From time to time he raised his glass and drank a toast....

In my memoirs I have written of the request I made to Joseph Stalin in 1947 in regard to the creation of some joint Albanian-Soviet companies, which were to utilize our underground wealth. He told me that they did not set up joint companies with the fraternal countries of people's democracy, and explained to me that even some step which had been taken at first in this direction with some country of people's democracy, they had considered mistaken and given up. It is our duty, continued Stalin, to provide the countries of people's democracy with the technology we possess and the economic aid we are able to give, and we shall always be ready to support them. This is what Stalin thought and that is how he acted.The Khrushchevites, on the contrary, did not follow such a course. They embarked on the road of cunning capitalist collaboration, creating a military, political and economic "unity" with the former countries of people's democracy 'in their own interests and to the detriment of others.

They transformed the Warsaw Treaty into an instrument to keep their new colonies in bondage, in forms and ways allegedly socialist. They transformed Comecon from an organization of mutual economic aid, which it was in the time of Stalin, into a means of control and exploitation of its member countries."

File under: Communism, Stalinism, Soviet Union, Albania, communist party, socialism, cooperatives, agrarian communism, progressive, primitivism, primitive, anarchims, Balkan politics, Balkans, eastern Europe.