Comrade Enver: Yes, but do you know what your own ambassador has said? Instead of mentioning many cases, I will mention one that is a military matter. He has put into the question to which side the Albanian army would swear allegiance.
N. S. Khrushchev: Who has he said this to?
Comrade Enver: To our generals, at the airport, in the presence of your general. Our officers replied that the Albanian army would remain faithful to the party and the socialist camp.
N. S. Khrushchev: If our ambassador has said such a thing, then that is sheer stupidity.
Comrade Enver: But this stupidity is political.
N. S. Khrushchev: This is every kind of stupidity.
Mikoyan: Maybe you are inferring that the ambassador’s behavior is our official position?
Comrade Enver: One case of stupidity from one idiot may be forgiven, even if it is political, but when it is repeated many times it is official position.
N. S. Khrushchev: Yes, this is true.
Comrade Enver: Your ambassador has been the best friend to our party and to us on a personal level. He is not an idiot.
N. S. Khrushchev: If he has spoken so, he is an idiot.
Comrade Enver: His stupidity only came out after
Bucharest. Why did he not do this for three years in a row? This is strange.
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Comrade Ramiz Alia: (Reading from page 46 of the letter). You publicly accuse us of anti-Sovietism.
N. S. Khrushchev: This is our opinion. Do not get angry.
Comrade Mehmet: You attack us, and we should not get angry?
N. S. Khrushchev: You accused me over our conversation in [April] 1957. [Back] then, Comrade Enver spoke for two hours, while I kept my mouth shut. I spoke for five minutes and you interrupted me immediately, and then again and again. I said that you do not wish to listen and I could stop talking. Then you came to our Central Committee, said that what happened was not a good thing and [we] reconciled. Now you should let me speak. All four of you are interrupting me again.
We are sorry about what happened to these people. You do not believe us. I do not know
Koco Tashko. I may have seen him before, but even if you showed me a picture of him, I would not recognize him.
Comrade Enver: If you would like a picture, we can bring you one.
N. S. Khrushchev: Why do you talk this way?
Comrade Enver: I apologize.
N. S. Khrushchev: You sent me the picture in which we are hugging. Maybe you burned that one. I keep mine at the Central Committee. I will keep it no matter what happens.
Comrade Enver: I keep mine in my children’s room.