Llazar Fundo

Lazar Fundo, also Llazar or Zai Fundo ( born March 20, 1899 in Korçë, † September 20, 1944 in Kolesian in Kukes ), was an Albanian politician and co-founder of the Party of Labour of Albania.

Life

Fundo came from a native to the city Voskopoja family of merchants. After completing high school he attended the French School in Salonika, and then studied law in Paris.

In the early 1920s he became a member of the Communist founded by Avni Rustemi Bashkimi Union, of which he took over after his assassination in April 1924. Fundo led the organization to the connection to the Greek Orthodox bishop and politician Fan Noli related Komiteti i Clirimit National ( KCN) in 1927. 1924 he took an active part in the run of Noli so-called June revolution. After the failure of the government Noli Fundo end of 1924, emigrated first to Vienna, the center of the Balkan Communist Federation (CBF ), and from there to the Soviet Union. There, he became head of the " foreign students " and worked in the Albanian section of Comintern. In 1929 he took part in the 8th Conference of the Federation, on the establishment of a Communist Party of Albania was agreed to it, however, came only in 1941. He also worked as a journalist, so 1930/31 for the magazine " The Balkan Federation" in Vienna.

In 1933, he was in Germany and participated as an observer at the Reichstag fire trial. After the acquittal of Georgi Dimitrov, he traveled with this back to Moscow. During the Spanish Civil War, he was with the organization of Albanian volunteers engaged and active in the Popular Front in Paris. During these years, Fundo turned gradually from Stalinist communism and approached social democratic positions.

During the period of the Great Terror in the Soviet Union was determined against Fundo. In 1938 he was recalled to Moscow, interrogated by an inspection of the Comintern and then expelled from the party. Thanks to his friendship with Dimitrov, he managed to escape to France. So he missed a pronounced against him death sentence.

According to the Italian annexation of Albania in 1939 Fundo returned to Korca, and worked until his dismissal in 1940 as a high school teacher. During this time he was active in the ( non-communist ) underground struggle against the occupation forces. In 1941 he was arrested and deported to the Italian Internierungslagerinsel Ventotene. After the fall of Italian fascism in 1943 freed from prison, he returned to Albania. There he was captured by Communist partisans in September 1944 and beaten on the orders of Enver Hoxha, who performed a transfer of the Comintern and Tito as a Trotskyist and renegade in the eyes of members of the British Military Mission to death.