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Postcard for the Municipality of Tirana

Kartoline për Bashkinë e Tiranës

Cartolina per il Comune di Tirana

Original newspaper scan

Original newspaper scan

Because of the importance of these documents, which shed light on the history of Albanian-Yugoslav relations in the postwar years, we are publishing them in sequence. The document we publish today is a letter sent to Belgrade by the general secretary of the Communist Party of Albania. Enver Hoxha wrote this letter on Christmas Day 1945, and addressed it to the Chief of the Supreme Headquarters of Yugoslavia and Minister of Defense, Marshal Josip Broz Tito. In this letter he tells Tito that Albania’s relations with Yugoslavia must be strengthened at any cost and that the "problems" between Albania and Yugoslavia are many and important. He proposes to Tito that the Kosovo issue be solved at any cost, and signs as leader of the Communist Party of Albania and as leader of the Albanian state.