Added: Oct 13, 2008
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Communist takeover and occupation of Albania special report no. 13 of the Select Committee on Communist Aggression. Sorry for the many errors due to a bad scan. no real "opposition"; there Avere only two indei)en(lent candidates, of Avhom one had AA'ithdraAvn his candidature before the day of elections (December 2, 1045). Since no opposition appeared, because of the prevailing terror, it Avas natural for the Democratic Front (the peacetime camouflaged Communist Party) to score a triumj)!!. According to oflicial returns, its candidates received 93 percent of the votes. The constituent assembly couA-ened at Tirana and abolished the monarchy (January 10, 1946), j)roclaiming Albania a people's demo- cratic republic, similar to Avhat had previously happened in Yugo- slavia, Avhich in turn had followed a Soviet
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