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  Mehmet Shehu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mehmet Shehu (January 10, 1913 Çorush (prononc.: Tchorouch), Mallakastër, South Albania – December 17, 1981 Tiranë) was an Albanian Communist politician.
Shehu was one of those who prepared the Chinese-Albanian alliance and the break with the Soviet Union (December 1961).
Shehu was declared to be a "people's enemy" and was buried in a wasteland near the village of Ndroq near Tiranë.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mehmet_Shehu   (717 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Mehmet Shehu
Shehu was declared to be a "people's enemy" and was buried in a wasteland near the village of near Tiranë.
Mehmet Shehu (Çorush, 10 januari 1913 – Tirana, 17 december 1981) was een Albanees politicus.
Het wordt echter aangenomen dat Shehu in opdracht van Enver Hoxha werd vermoord, omdat hij zich tegen het isolationisme van Hoxha keerde.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mehmet-Shehu   (1794 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Mehmet Shehu (Albanian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Mehmet Shehu[memet´ she´hOO] Pronunciation Key, 1913–81, Albanian political leader, premier (1954–81).
He was one of the architects of the Sino-Albanian alliance that triggered Albania's formal break with the Soviet Union in Dec., 1961.
In 1981, Shehu, opposed to Hoxha's isolationist policies, became involved in a power struggle, and after being accused of being a Yugoslav spy, was reported to have committed suicide.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Shehu-Me.html   (250 words)

  
 ► Communist and post-Communist Albania: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
They began to concentrate primarily on securing and maintaining their power base, and secondarily on preserving Albania's independence and reshaping the country according to the precepts of orthodox Stalinism (Stalinism: A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)).
In pursuit of these goals, Hoxha and Shehu used a combination of means including propaganda (propaganda: Information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause) and political repression (political repression: political repression means the restriction of the abilities of certain groups of people to...
Hoxha and Shehu were also alarmed at the prospect that Moscow (Moscow: A city of central European Russia; formerly capital of both the Soviet Union and Soviet Russia; since 1991 the capital of the Russian Federation) might prefer less dogmatic rulers in Albania.
absoluteastronomy.com /reference/communist_and_post-communist_albania   (6814 words)

  
 Military history of Albania during World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Enver Hoxha and another veteran of the Spanish Civil War, Mehmet Shehu, eventually rose to become the most powerful figures in Albania for decades after the war.
He went on to a military college in Naples but was expelled for left-wing political activity.
After internment in France, he returned to Albania in 1942 and won a reputation for brutality fighting with the partisans.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albania_during_World_War_II   (1540 words)

  
 BBC News | EUROPE | Remains of Communist leader 'found'
Mehmet Shehu was prime minister of Albania from 1953 until 1981.
Mehmet Shehu was a well-known Albanian communist who fought in both the Spanish civil war and in the partisan movement in the Second World War.
Mehmet Shehu's widow and two sons were imprisoned after his death.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1450000/1450894.stm   (278 words)

  
 Alfred Moisiu - Wikipedia
Ia tetap menjabat posisi tersebut di bawah pemerintahan Beqir Balluku, Mehmet Shehu, dan Kadri Hasbiu sampai Oktober 1982.
Perdana Menteri Mehmet Shehu wafat pada Desember 1982.
Mungkin akibat perselisihan Shehu dengan Enver Hoxha, ia dikirim ke Burrel dan bertugas sebagai komandan kesatuan teknik dari 1982-1984.
id.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_Moisiu   (640 words)

  
 2001/02/23 01:20 The Return of Enver's Portrait
Actually, that debate was initiated several days before the appearance of the phantasm of the former Prime Minister Mehmet Shehu (who had committed a suicide), one of the central figures of the communist dictatorship and a man known for his iron fist rule.
Moreover, the National Historic Museum in Tirana organised a ceremony in his honour, which was also attended by two highly placed officials of the ruling Socialist Party and a military advisor of the President of the Republic.
However, for the Foreign Ministry officials and Socialist officials who had gone to pay their respects to Mehmet Shehu, these events should be viewed as simple re-evaluation of history and not as a positive analysis of the communist regime figures.
www.aimpress.ch /dyn/trae/archive/data/200102/10223-001-trae-tir.htm   (973 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Albania
In 1949 it was admitted to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON), and in 1955 it became a member of the Warsaw Pact.
In 1954 Hoxha relinquished the premiership to his deputy, Mehmet Shehu, but continued to dominate the country as head of the Albanian Communist Party.
In December 1981 the government alleged that Premier Shehu had “committed suicide”; he was later denounced as a foreign agent, and his former supporters were purged.
uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761561564_9/Albania.html   (1890 words)

  
 WORLD ENCYCLOPAEDIA - Albania - The Hoxha Regime   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The next most influential political figure was Mehmet Shehu, who became prime minister when Hoxha relinquished this post in July 1954.
Hoxha's efforts to impose a rigid, repressive political and government structure on Albania met with little active resistance until the country's declining standard of living and poor economic performance led to such dissatisfaction that unrest began to spread in 1965-66.
Although Prime Minister Shehu had been regarded as the second most powerful leader, especially because he had significant support in the police and military, Hoxha decided against naming him as his successor.
encyclopaedic.net /world/albania/124.php   (614 words)

  
 ATA Homepage - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Shehu has been accused of "rebellion", army desertion under the state of emergency and abuse of armaments, the independent daily "Gazeta Shqiptare" and the Socialist daily "Zeri i Popullit" report on Sunday.
Agim Shehu who fled Albania after the early elections of June 29, '97 shirking obligations under the law (return of armaments) was considered as the right wing of former president Sali Berisha and leader of the military operation to quell revolts in the south.
He has been one of the bodyguards of ex prime minister Mehmet Shehu at the time of communist regime of Enver Hoxha and quited the post after the enigmatic killing of Shehu (Mehmet).
www.telpress.it /ATA/1998/jun_98/hdarch21.htm   (2699 words)

  
 Degenerate - Comrade Loulou and the Fun Factory - Chapter 6   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The rumoured story (and it is impossible to verify) has it that Hoxha and Shehu were having a drink of cognac when the chief of the Sigurimi and two burly lieutenants burst in.
The thugs held Shehu down, but the chief refused to pull the trigger on a man who was an icon deferential only to Stalin and Hoxha himself.
There was almost no doubt who was in charge, but he liked to give the impression that he had sacrificed his life for his country and now wanted to spend his dotage reliving his youth.
www.diacritica.com /degenerate/5/enver6.html   (1288 words)

  
 The Successor
Shehu was, until shortly before his death, Enver Hoxha's right-hand man. Shehu was a commander of a Communist-led partisan brigade during the Second World War and had a reputation for brutality that led to his promotion to a division commander of the National Liberation Army.
As is often the case being "Number 2" was a precarious perch to sit on in regimes where aging tyrants (Stalin and Hoxha both come to mind) often struck out at those closest to them as their own mortality seemed to weaken them.
Shehu's death and the speculation as to the cause of his death form the heart of Kadare's "The Successor".
www.travelingo.org /books/1841957631   (762 words)

  
 Post-War Albania
The actual story of communist Albania is, however, quintessentially dystopian, a bleak inventory of bloody purges and repression, a case study in betrayal and obsessive xenophobia, a cacophony of bitter polemics with real and fantasized enemies that the outside world barely took time to notice.
After five years of party infighting and extermination campaigns against the country's anticommunist opposition, Enver Hoxha and Mehmet Shehu emerged as the dominant figures in Albania.
Hoxha and Shehu dominated Albania and denied the Albanian people the most basic human and civil rights by presenting themselves, as well as the communist party and state security apparatus they controlled, as the vigilant defenders of the country's independence.
www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/AlbanPW.html   (5233 words)

  
 --[ Libertarian International. Network of liberty-minded individuals and organizations in Europe. ]--
A few days ago, the Socialist government rehabilitated, with a lot of boast, the most hated people of the period of communist dictatorship.
Mehmet Shehu was declared "the Honorary Citizen" of the town of Ballsh and Enver Hoxha's picture was hang at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Last week was organised a very notorious ceremony to declare as the "Honorary Citizen" of the city of Ballsh the Prime -Minister of the communist dictatorship period.
www.libertarian.to /NewsDta/templates/news1.php?art=art519   (664 words)

  
 House of Mirth: September 2005
Shehu, who had been groomed as the heir to Enver Hoxha, was found in his bedroom with a bullet in his skull.
The "bold" Mehmet Shehu thought all night about how to escape from the tight spot, worked out and applied a plan of his own.
But what also caught my eye was this sentence: "Mehmet Shehu arranged the engagement of his son to the daughter of a family in the circle of which there were 6 or 7 fugitive war criminals, including the notorious agent of the CIA Arshi Pipa." Arshi Pipa!
housemirth.blogspot.com /2005_09_01_housemirth_archive.html   (9207 words)

  
 Not-So-Great Pretender   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Yet an introductory note by Kadare states that the resemblance of the characters and circumstances in the book to real individuals and events is "inevitable." As will be seen, it is genuinely fictional, but in a way destined to be overlooked by most non-Albanians.
Kadare presents the death of Shehu as a mystery, and the primary enigma is whether Shehu killed himself or was murdered.
A number of potential suspects are introduced, ranging from the dictator to the dead man's wife, and from a potential successor to the Successor to an architect working on the Successor's residence.
www.weeklystandard.com /Check.asp?idArticle=6591&r=ntzwc   (644 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Observer review: The Successor by Ismail Kadare
After his death, the entire Shehu clan was arrested, persecuted or simply eliminated in a public display of gjakmarrje (revenge killings).
Using eyewitness reports, among them Bashkim Shehu's, Kadare brilliantly recreates the atmosphere of shadowy fear, rumours and recrimination in Albania during the early Eighties, when Nexhmije Hoxha appeared to be running the troubled Balkan outpost singlehandedly.
In an extraordinary chapter, the deceased Mehmet Shehu speaks from his grave of Albania's fate after 1985 when Enver Hoxha died.
books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,1686544,00.html   (841 words)

  
 BHHRG
Even in old age, Hoxha was capable of the ruthless slaughter of former close comrades like Mehmet Shehu, the prime minister, who killed himself or was "suicided" in 1981.
(Shehu was himself a murderer of considerable bloodthirstiness, but his fall drew in innocent victims as well as fellow former servants of the regime.)4
The chief beneficiary of Hoxha's last murderous purge was Ramiz Alia who replaced Mehmet Shehu as the heir-apparent and in fact succeeded his mentor in April, 1985.
www.bhhrg.org /CountryReport.asp?ReportID=140&CountryID=1   (4846 words)

  
 Albania, Party 601
Stalin's death in 1953 and the leadership change in the Soviet Union also threatened Hoxha's rule, which dutifully was altered to conform to the principle of collective leadership, with Mehmet Shehu, Hoxha's ally, becoming prime minister.
Albania's insecurity was eased somewhat in 1955 with its entrance into the Warsaw Pact, but Hoxha and Shehu were fearful of the de-Stalinization promised by Khrushchev's speech at the 20th Party Congress in 1956.
Moscow apparently prompted an attempted takeover of the Albanian government in 1960, which was foiled and ended in a show trial of the traitors in May 1961.
www.janda.org /ICPP/ICPP1980/Book/PART2/6-EasternEurope/60-Albania/Albania.htm   (829 words)

  
 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Shehu, Mehmet @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Shehu, Mehmet @ HighBeam Research
SHEHU, MEHMET [Shehu, Mehmet], 1913-81, Albanian political leader, premier (1954-81).
Our archive contains millions of documents from thousands of sources and goes back over 23 years.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:Shehu-Me&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (197 words)

  
 iqexpand.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 Premtaj: Stalinism and Communism in Albania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
When Premtaj and Lulja gained the support of the Vlöre Regional Committee in 1943, Enver Hoxha and Mehmet Shehu took part personally in the expedition that killed both of its leaders, and whilst Lulja was ‘executed’, Premtaj fled abroad.
Memet Shehu (today the Stalinist commanding general), the most notorious criminal in Albania, went to this village and re-arrested Vangjo, telling the village people that the assassination attempt had been an accidental act of the escort and that Vangjo was now to appear before the Party judges.
Vangjo was then led to a house in the middle of a forest where, at the point of a gun, he was forced to write to his battalion an order transferring his command to the general in question.
www.marxists.org /history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol3/no1/premtaj.html   (6446 words)

  
 rehabil   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In his press conference held today, January 11, 2001, the DP spokesman Mr.
Edi Paloka condemned the proclamation as "Honorable Citizen" of Mehmet Shehu, the former Prime Minister of Hoxha's dictatorship for nearly 30 years, who was known as the Albanian Pol Pot.
Brokaj, counselor for defense of the President of the republic on behalf of president Meidani, initiated and participated yesterday in the honoring ceremony of the proclamation as "Honorable Citizen" of Mehmet Shehu.
www.dpalbania.org /english/week/dp_reacts/shehu_rehabil.htm   (152 words)

  
 Serbian Terrorism on the Albanian people in Kosova - www.ezboard.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
SHEHU, Adnan        20        Male
SHEHU, FNU(son of Haziz)        20        Male
SHEHU, FNU(son of Sinan)        18        Male
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 Alfred Moisiu - Art History Online Reference and Guide
Under the ministers Beqir Balluku, Mehmet Shehu and Kadri Hasbiu he held this post until October 1982 (Premier Minister Shehu died in December 1982).
Presumably on connection with Shehu's conflict with Enver Hoxha, Moisiu was sent to Burrel, where he served as the commander of an engineer company from 1982 to 1984.
He came back into public life in December 1991 when he was appointed the Minister of Defense in Vilson Ahmeti's government consisting of experts, preceding the first democratically elected parliament in post-Communist Albania.
www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Alfred_Moisiu   (808 words)

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