Ali Kelmendi
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Ali Kelmendi (3 November 1900 – 11 February 1939) was a
Life and career
Ali Kelmendi was born on 3 November 1900 in a poor peasant family in the town of
In June 1924, he participated in the resurgence led by
On 8 October 1925 Kelmendi went then to the
In 1930, the Communist International sent Kelmendi to Albania as an organizer of the communist movement. He also made some organizational work in Kosovo. However, his work bore no considerable fruit since Marxism hadn't found any favorable soil in Albania and the clandestine work was very difficult because of the activity of the security police. Kelmendi was arrested several times and in 1936 he was exiled. He went shortly back to Russia in March 1932, and after the exile from Albania to Greece and then Moscow. He later server as an intermediary between COMINTERN and Albanian communist groups.[1] Kelmendi participated in the Spanish Civil War,[2] fighting with the Garibaldi International Brigade.[3]
In 1939, he edited a propagandist newspaper in France together with other Albanian communists. He died in Paris, France, on 11 February 1939 after complications from a stomach surgery, while suffering from tuberculosis.
See also
Further reading
- Ali Kelmendi, Krsta Aleksić, Rilindja, Prishtina 1970, OCLC 8991273
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1780764313.
- ISBN 978-1860645419.
- ^ "History of Albania". Mother Earth Travel. Retrieved 28 January 2021.