
"This woman is not good, she is keeping the recordings of my memories in a drawer, why does Haxhi Lleshi want to use them for himself?" Myslim Peza's revolt against the President's secretary who did her best to sabotage the publication of his memoirs and Enver's appreciation for Myslim's stories full of adventures, which he considered acts of "heroism, patriotism"
Second part
The two elected by Enver at the head of the Presidium of the People's Assembly, Haxhi Lleshi and Myslim Peza, were served to the public by the communist propaganda of the time, as two legendary tribunes. In spite of this opinion, the head of the regime and the head of the Party, has reserved bad considerations, even in the last years when they served at the head of the Presidium, he accused them of vices and backsliding that reached the level of perversity.
The first part of the document that we uncovered from Enver's secret diary focused on the atrocities of Haxhi Lleshi, recently divorced from his wife and in love with his secretary. The following part contains Hoxha's notes on the mysteries of Myslim Peza's relationship with Haxhi Lleshi and dwells at length on Myslim Peza's vices, already intoxicated by the merits of the war. The hero of Peza, Enveri writes in his diary, decided to write the memories of the war at the age of 80 and blind, but Haxhiu's secretary, who was tasked with explaining it, interfered. This was the moment when the President's confidant became the cause of another clash between the two heads of the Presidency. How the events unfolded after that and what Enveri thinks about the capture of his two former friends since the time of the war, are elaborated in the following part of the entry dated June 22, 1982 of the secret diary...
June 22, 1982
Myslim Peza's relations with Haxhi Lleshi, as always, have been excellent, without any cloud. But during the last year, suddenly and without remembering, the sky of this friendship started to darken. Myslim Peza, who the Party and I have very well pointed out the role he played in the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War, got into his head at the age of 80 and blind, to write memoirs in "Three volumes".
He got along with Haxhi Lleshi, who recommended him to come and register at his house, his secretary. And so it was. The registration began, but Moslimi "didn't have patience", he wanted to print them as soon as possible. Why? It is not known. Muslim got angry and said that "this woman is not good, she is keeping the recordings of my memories in a drawer, because Haxhi Lleshi also wants to use them for himself". In fact, even Haxhi Lleshi had started recording his memories. Both were acting in parallel and the same woman, DS, was recording these memories for both parties
Muslimi angrily demanded that his records be handed over to him, because he thought that "Haxhiu was eating his bread". The records were taken from this woman, who insisted on not giving them, then she was ordered to protest to the Central Committee. Another person from the Party was given to Myslim to continue the recording and he recorded it, divulged it, a copy was given to the apparatus of the Central Committee of the Party and a copy was given to Myslim himself. He was waiting for the Central Committee to send it to the press, but this work was being delayed. Then Myslim Peza quickly sent these to the Publishing Company, where the person in charge of this work, reading "these memories", put his hands on his head from the content, therefore he informed the Central Committee of the Party.
These memories were being studied at this time by the apparatus of the Central Committee of the Party, which had come to the conclusion that they could not be printed, because they had to do with a story full of adventures of Muslim, which he considered as acts of "heroism", "patriotism ” etc., until the beginning of the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War, when he contacted us. Neither the historical events of Peza, which are the work of the Party, nor the war of the Pezas were mentioned in these records, even the Muslim war itself is darkened there with his mouth, not only with perverted individual, subjectivist, repeated thoughts, entering in the stories of the town and the villages, but what is most important, in these materials are recorded parts related to the full adventures of Muslims in emigration, in Yugoslavia and the regions of Serbia.
In this part of his life, Moslimi says that he received money from the Yugoslavs, that they had proposed to make him an agent, but he "didn't accept". However, the Yugoslavs, says Myslimi, continued to pay salaries.
When Myslimi was still in Albania, at the time of Zogut, the Legation of Yugoslavia gave 500 Napoleons, "but Myslimi didn't take them, but the halexia" And Myslimi continues to tell about the proposals to collaborate against Zogut with Gani Kryeziu, the family of Lleshi (Haxhiu), or with Irfan Ohri. With the help of the Serbs, Moslimi chose the Lleshaj family, a family "with a lot of authority in Yugoslavia and in Belgrade" There he met Haxhi Lleshi and the adventures of both of them that he recorded with his mouth continue to be told. During the whole life and work we did with Muslim, he never talked to me about these events in his life.
Why did he hide these events from me and the Party?
Why are you bringing them out at this time, when we discovered Mehmet Shehu's conspiracy? Don't you want to get ahead of the danger? Aren't you afraid that others will find out? With these memories that Muslim insistently tries to suppress, he darkens his own image that was elevated by the Party and the war. If we allow these adventures of Myslim Peza to be suppressed, then we have given a weapon in the hands of the enemy and the opinion: "Did the Party cooperate with such people? Yes, we will not give this satisfaction either to Muslims or to the Yugoslavs. We will do our best for Muslim Peza to accept life as it is, with its good and bad things.
Enveri, Myslim Peza in '79: You, the hero of all ages!
While in public performances Enver Hoxha articulated extraordinary merits for Myslim Peza, labeling him "great popular tribe" and "ardent patriot", in close circles he expressed reservations and even contemptuous opinions about the "disoriented old man" and the leader of " pumped up by party propaganda". However, the dictator wanted to appoint him to the head of the highest state bodies, initially as deputy chairman of the first communist government, the so-called "democratic government" and from 1946 to 1982, deputy chairman of the Presidium of the People's Assembly.
On May 2, 1979, during an official ceremony, Enver Hoxha handed Myslim Peza the decoration with the title "Hero of Socialist Work". Despite the entries in the secret diary of 1982, where Peza is anathema by the dictator as an unbalanced person, in the ceremony of 1979, the flow of positive considerations has not stopped for him. Below we are publishing Enver's greeting on the occasion of Peza's decoration...
"We do not give this title because you are the oldest among us, but this has a great political meaning for what I said and for your action since the time of Zog, when you signaled the revolt and killed exactly Osman Bali, the torturer and murderer of Haxhi Qamili, the servant of Vërlac and Ahmet Zog. Your brave and manly gesture was not a simple vengeful or terrorist gesture, but a political gesture because it symbolized the hand of our patriotic peasantry that stood up against the tyrants. You were followed by the Zog regime, that's why you were forced to go into exile, where you lived as an Albanian patriot and honest among the Albanians who lived under the poverty of the Serbian lands. / Pamphlet
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