Editing Enver Hoxha (section)

==== Movement towards China and Maoism ====
[[File:Mao Zedong and Enver Hoxha.jpg|thumb|[[Mao Zedong]] and Hoxha in 1956]]
In 1956, Hoxha called for a resolution which would confirm the existing leadership of the Party. The resolution was accepted, and all of the delegates who had spoken against it were expelled from the party and imprisoned. Hoxha claimed that Yugoslavia had attempted to overthrow the leadership of Albania. This incident increased Hoxha's power, effectively making Khrushchev-style reforms impossible there. In the same year, Hoxha travelled to [[China]], then embroiled in the [[Sino-Soviet split]], and met [[Mao Zedong]]. Chinese aid to Albania rose sharply during the next two years.{{Sfn|Biberaj|1986|p=27}}<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Marku|first=Ylber|date=30 May 2019|title=Communist Relations in Crisis: The End of Soviet-Albanian Relations, and the Sino-Soviet Split, 1960–1961|journal=The International History Review|volume=42|issue=4|pages=813–832|doi=10.1080/07075332.2019.1620825|s2cid=191900853|issn=0707-5332}}</ref>

In an effort to keep Albania in the Soviet sphere, increased Soviet aid was given but Albania's relations with the Soviet Union remained at the same level until 1960, when Khrushchev met [[Sofoklis Venizelos]], a liberal Greek politician. Khrushchev sympathised with the concept of an autonomous Greek [[North Epirus]] and he wanted to use Greek claims on North Epirus to keep the Albanian leadership in line.{{Sfn|O'Donnell|1999|p=46}} Hoxha reacted by only sending [[Hysni Kapo]], a member of the Albanian Political Bureau, to the Third Congress of the [[Romanian Workers' Party]] in [[Bucharest]], an event which Communist heads of state were normally expected to attend.{{Sfn|O'Donnell|1999|pp=46–47}} As relations between the two countries continued to deteriorate during the course of the meeting, Khrushchev said:
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| text = Especially shameless was the behavior of that agent of Mao Zedong, Enver Hoxha. He bared his fangs at us even more menacingly than the Chinese themselves. After his speech, Comrade [[Dolores Ibárruri]] [a Spanish Communist], an old revolutionary and a devoted worker in the Communist movement, got up indignantly and said, very much to the point, that Hoxha was like a dog who bites the hand that feeds it.<ref>{{Harvard citation no brackets|Talbott|1970|pp=475–476}}</ref>
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