The Fall of Communist Albania and Northern Epirotic Hellenism

My new book ( [ the ] fourth in total ), entitled, “The Fall of Communist Albania and Northern Epirotic Hellenism”, has been released. 

A laborious ( but [ yet ] so constructive ) work of several months which has resulted in a rich, qualitatively and quantitatively-wise content, [ of ] a  450 page-long, publication.

This book is a comprehensive record of communist Albania, with particular emphasis on the last years of its existence. 

This publication is divided into five chapters. The first chapter provides a brief account of the communist regimen’s establishment in Albania until the death of Enver Hoxha. 

In the second chapter, which constitutes the [ books’ ] “backbone”, the course of the Albanian regime from the death of Hoxha to its collapse, is described in every detail. In this chapter, for the first time in an official Greek edition, all the chilling details of the case of the case of the suicide of  Mehmet Sehu, the “number two” of the Albanian regime, are described.  A gruesome account that  truly resembles an espionage action crime film.  

The third chapter concerns the living conditions of Northern Epirotic Hellenism  during the omnipotence of Albanian communism. 

Τhe fourth chapter deals with the legal prohibition of religious belief in Albania. 

The fifth chapter deals with the communist organisations in Greece that supported the Albanian regime. It is the first time that something like this has been attempted in a domestic publication, and insofar as it is concerned  the content is “tasty” as it constitutes the largest, most extensive chapter of the book. 

This edition is supplemented  with an appendix of four texts on Northern Epirus and communist Albania, which were first published in the Nationalist magazine “Anaktisi”. [“Reclamation“] 

Ι thank and express my gratitude from the bottom of my heart to three special people: 

Stella Koniari; for about four months, on a daily basis, possibly to the detriment of her own important activities, she typed the book using, the ( perhaps original ) method of telephone dictation. With willpower, patience and strength, the tens of thousands of  words contained in this book.  

Νora Miaou. Her contribution to the book was constructively catalytic. She devoted several hours of her truly Valuable ( and pressing ) time to correct the errors that would inevitably emerge from these hundred of pages.  Without her active participation, it is certain that this book would not have this excellent syntactic and orthographic structure. 

Northern Epirus, Land Hellenic! 

Giorgos Mastoras