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-“Fadil Hoxha, as I know him”, book by Ekrem Murtezai-
The life and work of one of the most controversial people in Kosovo, former communist leader Fadil Hoxha, continues to this day to remain shrouded in a shadow of mystery. Various books and articles have been written about this figure, most of which are either for or against him. The well-known Kosovar philosopher Ekrem Murtezai, who for about five years (1979–1984), was both chief of staff and advisor to Fadil Hoxha, when he was a member of the Executive Bureau, which was the highest point in his political career, has decided to put his thoughts on Fadil Hoxha and his experience as a close associate of the communist leader on paper.
In the book titled "Fadil Hoxha, as I know him", which will be published in a few months, as Murtezai has not yet finished it, an attempt is made to balance the different positions on the former communist leader.
He tells 'Expres' that Fadil Hoxha, or as Murtezai calls him, "the commander of the National Liberation Army and the organizer" of what could be called an uprising or revolution of the Albanian masses of Kosovo, is a striking figure who cannot be overlooked by anyone who has aspirations to write the newest history of Kosovo.
"As one of the closest associates of the president of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito, Fadil Hoxha is undoubtedly a controversial figure. This controversial character of his personality stems, among other things, from the fact that his activity extended to many fields in a territory that includes not only present-day Kosovo, but also beyond, even to the northern part of Albania," - assesses the philosopher Murtezai, who is also a member of the Kosovo Academy of Sciences and Arts.
According to him, this controversial character of Fadil Hoxha also stems from the fact that during different periods of the socio-political development of Kosovo and, together with Kosovo, of the former Yugoslavia, there have been different positions, which give his followers and lovers the opportunity to speak supremacy over Fadil Hoxha, as a man, as a politician, as an activist, as an Albanian, but why not also as a communist.
Murtezai emphasizes that Hoxha's opponents deny what is most important to him, which according to Murtezai, is the patriotic character of Fadil Hoxha's activities and views.
"Fadil Hoxha's patriotic character, his greatness, came from the fact that within the communist ideology, the socialist politics, within what he encountered, that establishment, that social and political structure, the basis of which was internationalism, Fadil Hoxha himself successfully managed to present, defend and advance the cause of the Albanians of Kosovo, but also of the Albanians outside Kosovo, those in the Presheva Valley and in Macedonia, where the Albanians, as is well known, had almost no rights," asserts academician Murtezai.
In the work "Fadil Hoxha, as I know him", the emphasis is placed on presenting those data, those facts, which are less known to the general public. Being an associate of Tito, a member of the Executive Bureau, president of the Assembly of Kosovo, president of the Executive Council of Kosovo, commander of the National Liberation Army, Fadil Hoxha, according to Murtezai, has always had the cause of the Albanians, the cause of the nation, in the focus of his attention and political activity, which Murtezai attempts to prove with those facts that he knows.
Murtezai also talks about the Bujan Conference and Fadil Hoxha's role in this conference, then about the weaknesses and values of his personality, as well as about his relations with the two communist leaders of the time, Josip Broz Tito and Enver Hoxha.
"The issue of the Bujan Conference is inevitable, neither Bujan can be ignored by Fadil Hoxha, nor Fadil Hoxha by the Conference. It is true that there were writers of the resolution there, Hajdar Dushi, Zeqirja Rexha and others, but as far as I know, from the conversation I had with him and from what I have read, it appears that Fadil Hoxha was the 'Spiritus Movens', he was the moving spirit, the living spirit that gave the main determinants of how to elaborate and formulate the resolution of the Bujan Conference", - says Murtezai about the conference, in which the main message was the self-determination of the Albanians of Kosovo and unification with Albania, but that such a thing was never achieved.
Murtezai says that Fadil Hoxha first met Tito in Leskovac, when the issue of relations between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia had become extremely tense and Yugoslavia was threatened with attack by the Soviet Union. “When he was elected a member of the Executive Bureau at the Great Congress in 1969, and until Tito’s death, Fadil Hoxha was a close associate of Tito, the relations were close.
"I can personally testify with full responsibility that on many issues related to Yugoslav politics, and especially the policy of the League of Communists and the Yugoslav government towards Kosovo, Tito consulted with Fadil Hoxha," Murtezai emphasizes.
Meanwhile, when talking about Fadil Hoxha's relations with the Communist Party of Albania and with Enver Hoxha, Murtezai claims that when the Yugoslav Communist Party began to betray the principles on which the National Liberation Army of Kosovo was formed and when the war broke out in Drenica and other cases that proved that the Albanian cause was not going well, Fadil Hoxha went incognito to Enver Hoxha and complained about the bad, undesirable and unexpected situation of the Albanians.
"Unfortunately, it is not known who, whether Enver Hoxha or Koci Xoxe, or both, or just one, denounced Fadil Hoxha to the OZNA of Yugoslavia, notified the then police chief Aleksandër Ranković, and he also notified a fierce anti-Albanian policeman, who came to Pristina and questioned Fadil," he claims.
After the Informbureau resolution in 1948, when relations between Albania and Yugoslavia deteriorated, according to Murtezai, Fadil Hoxha retreated and showed no signs of leaning towards Enver Hoxha and the Communist Party of Albania, even though, according to him, he had vacillated for a long time, hesitating which side to take, that of Tito or Stalin.
"After pondering for about two months, he decided to align himself with Tito and this automatically means; not with Enver Hoxha, not with the Communist Party of Albania and for this Enver Hoxha accuses Fadil of being a Titoist", emphasizes Murtezai.
Murtezai's book, as he claims, aims to show that Fadil Hoxha, despite all the weaknesses that have emerged, whether as a personality or due to the system he was at the head of, still remains an honest Albanian, a man who has put his life at the service of the people.
The book that attempts to reveal the truth about Fadil Hoxha, according to author Ekrem Murtezai, will reveal the values and weaknesses of the former communist leader and in this way will balance the contradictory opinions that have emerged so far about Hoxha's personality. / Memorie.al
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