Foundation of Albania has become real after the Balkan Wars with the decision of the European superior powers.
Since
1945 Greece has begun its requests for land on the Southern Albanian region
where it calls the Epirus region and has put forward a thesis saying that the
Orthodox christians who live in this region are Greeks and they should be given
autonomy.
Below
you will find information on the desires of Greece on Albania taken from the
book “Ellada sipna (Wake up Greece)” written by the Greek author Andreas
Dendrinos:
“The
first blow which caused Greece to shrink has come from communist Romania which
was founded in 1945 and “New Albania”. The first thing that the Bolsheviks
have done is to clear their land of Greeks. The easiest way for the Romanians to
do this was to banish the Greeks from their lands and expropriate their
properties. However this was not so easy in Albania since there is high Greek
population in this country. Albania tried to exterminate the Greek population by
committing many massacres and legal expropriations, banning the religion,
forcing the Greek population to migrate and making forced mixed marriages.
Albania has done this over a long period of time and in the ned the Greek
population has decreased to such levels that it can not be guessed even
today.”
“Even Albania claims
rights over the past and today because it wants to hush up the slavery of the
Greeks living in the Epirus region. Albania propagandizes by taking the
advantage of the opportunity of the stupidity of the regime that we have even in
Greece and claims that Albanians
belong to Albania. This menas that Albaina claims rights over the Attica region.
But Albanians have always been Greeks and christian orthodox. They were speaking
Albanian because they were living with Greek and Albanian people. They continue
to be Greeks, to be christian, to speak Greek and to have Albanian accents.
Anyway it has become clear that they are Greeks because of the failure of the
Albanian propaganda.”
“For the Albania
subject we can say that Greece must invade North Epirus region to the Berati by
any means. Moreover Greece, thinking that Albanians have the Greek and Illira
origins, must try to make Albanians christians.”
Until 1961 Albania was in a good cooperation with Russia, from this date the country has closed all doors to superior powers and has withdrawn to its own shell. Under the control of Enver Hodja and Ramiz Alia the doors of the country to the external world has remained closed. These closed doors have opened when Sali Beriţa came to power.