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Article: Partisan politics in World War II Albania: the struggle for power, 1939-1944.
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- East European Quarterly
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- September 22, 2006
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In Albania, November 29, 1944 is remembered as the day of national liberation. On that day, after five years of intense fighting and internecine political struggles, the National Liberation Movement emerged victorious. Beginning with the Italian invasion of April 1939, the Albanian people were embroiled in a seemingly endless battle to expel the Italians, and later, the Germans. Ultimately, the citizens of Albania sought to create a unified nation that was free of foreign control.
The civil war that raged in Albania from 1939 to 1944 was a three-pronged struggle in which the National Liberation Movement, the National Union, and the National Zogite Party fought ...