Waiting for 'Inglizi' and 7 October

By Luciano Boçi

Throughout the war, Albanian nationalists had their eyes, mind and dreams connected to the allies. They were natural pro-Westerners and anti-Bolsheviks and proved this with their patriotic activity.

Although heartbroken because of the greater support that the English missions gave to the communists (Memorandum of Mid'hat Frashër and Abaz Ermenji: "This moral and material support of the allied missions to Bolshevism broke the balance to the detriment of the Albanian nationalist forces", after war they did not stop the fight against communism and never gave up hope for an anti-communist allied landing.

Many of them sacrificed and self-sacrificed themselves during the organization of uprisings and landings, supported by the Anglo-American services, with the aim of overthrowing communism.

Although many patriots, especially in the north, managed to incite foci of rebellion, among which Postriba stood out, their spread throughout the territory remained anemic.
Their suppression with extreme ferocity, and Kim Philby's role in the failure of the landings, several times delayed the Allied readiness for an intervention.

Although the anti-communists looked forward to it, it was ultimately delayed until the '90s.

"Inglizi" did not land, as Frashëri, Ermenji, Guraziu, Kupi, Kazazi, Matjani, Lleshanaku, Cali and the leaders of the North, etc., as well as the most emancipated part of the shipowners, wanted.
Despite the fact that Hoxha sowed terror throughout his reign with imprisonment, murder and shootings, the dream of the right and nationalists for freedom and democratic order was never extinguished.

But she always carried with her the challenging question:

Why didn't the allies land to save the country from dictatorship and restore democracy?!

There may be many answers, but among them one screams the loudest:

It was necessary for the anti-communist movement to be stronger, more organized and extended throughout Albania.

The Albanians themselves should have been the first strong opponents.

This would prompt the Allies to intervene.

"English" did not come because the people, with their silence for many reasons said and unsaid, mostly submitted to communism, losing their freedoms and rights in the process.

The Albanians thus signed one of their most terrible fates.

The minority that resisted faced the most inhumane crimes of the regime, without surrendering until the day of freedom came.

But it was a spring out of a long and grueling polar winter, delayed by the acceptance of evil.

If the reaction of the citizens was appropriate and strong, Hoxha would not have exercised his terror for 46 consecutive years.

The Allies would have intervened.

This was the key that failed and prevented the Allies from landing.

History clearly warns us.

Regimes are overthrown by civil disobedience and resistance and the strength of the opposition.

Without illusions that only "English" will fulfill our task, when he thinks that it is necessary to intervene, with or without diplomatic channels.

The time of the opposition and the citizens is now!

For those who expect only the "English", but also for the representatives of the "English", I am bringing to mind the reflection of the British officer Tony Simcox, stationed during the war near the liberation forces of Gani Kryeziu.

Worried by the politics of his country at the time, he wrote:

"Allowing the communists to kill, attack, or provoke their political opponents with our help is worse than if we had done this ourselves."
Don't forget:

Let's turn October 7 into the start of the battle that our glorious nationalists and patriots found impossible to complete, which will bring us and the "Englishman" with them.

Right and freedom are earned, not given!