In Rome they are convinced that the shrewd Marshal Tito will try to foment a coup d’état in Tirana Le Monde Written in “Le Monde” on that day, 7 March 1953, after 4 days of agony for Marshal Stalin, who died in his home in the Kremlin, in the hands of his children Vasili and Zvetllana, and at a time when Stalinists were kneeling in Skënderbej Square in Tirana in his memory. page 4 If there is any chance that a satellite of this bloc might break away from the Kremlin authorities without a war, it is precisely Albania. According to some information, it is likely that in Moscow they have already understood this in practice, having withdrawn to Bulgaria most of their citizens who are in Albania. The loss of Albania would constitute a not insignificant blow to the Soviet Union, since the Soviet submarines at the base in Vlora represent a valuable and unique foothold throughout the Adriatic, ever since Tito’s break with the Comintern

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A mysterious fire broke out

Delegation of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Tirana and a memorandum by Albanian MPs for the release of F.Nano The only key may be in the pocket of Berisha’s jacket After 1 and a half years of isolation page 2

A mysterious fire broke out on the night of 22 December in the building of the Shijak Municipality. Only some materials could be saved from the blaze, while a good part of the documentation and the building were completely burned. The damage has not yet been assessed, and there is still no confirmation from the law enforcement authorities regarding the incident. The hypothesis that the fire broke out because of an electrical fault does not seem to fit the cause of the blaze very well, since the area where this building is located had, logically, been without electricity from 11:00 until the morning of the following day. It should be said that for several days a number of residents of the Shijak district had complained about not receiving assistance for a long time. Indeed, one of them said: “This Municipality should be set on fire.” It is noteworthy that shortly after this incident, police officers armed with submachine guns guarded all the main buildings and institutions of Durrës. M.SH.

Only the right could have neutralized the return of the ex-communists to power the return of the ex-communists to power The abandonment of the round table is justified by absurdity page 3

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the 1995 calendar We inform our readers that tomorrow, on one of the pages of our newspaper, you will find the special 1995 calendar.