Among Simple People

Among Simple PeopleAmong Simple People is Comrade Enver Hoxha's book of memoirs about the simple people that providing housing and lodging to the communists and partisan fighters during the Anti Fascist National Liberation War. It is said in the Marxist classics that wars are not decided by advanced weaponry and technology, but by the strivings of the people for national and social liberation. The partisan war the Albanians waged proved this thesis to the hilt, showing

Among Simple People is Comrade Enver Hoxha's book of memoirs about the simple people that providing housing and lodging to the communists and partisan fighters during the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War. It is said in the Marxist classics that wars are not decided by advanced weaponry and technology, but by the strivings of the people for national and social liberation. The partisan war the Albanians waged proved this thesis to the hilt, showing that despite having little to wage war with and facing the advanced nazi war machine, they routed them at the cost of 28,000 heroes. Such heroism would never have been possible without the patriotism and hospitality of the Albanian workers and peasants, mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, who hid the partisans from nazi persecution, allowing those underground and illegal to carry on their activity, meet and direct the mass movement. The excerpts from the following book discuss the heroism of the Nushi family, in specific Mother Valide, the legendary heroism of Vojo Kushi, Xhoxhi Martini and Sadik Stavaleci in Tirana, dying in a shoot-out in a Tirana house, and the epochal Albanian musician Tefta Tashko and her willingness to always house the comrades in a time of need, and other events. It certainly deals a fatal blow to those who insist only "great men" determine the outcome of conflicts.