Hysni Kapo, one of the leaders of the Albanian Communist Party, of the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War and of the Albanian state after liberation, Hero of the People, Hero of Socialist Work, passed away in Paris. He was born in Tërbaç, Vlora, in 1915. During the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War, he acted as a political and military leader for the organization of the party and the armed struggle, first in the district of Vlora and then on a national scale. Political secretary of the Regional Committee of the Communist Party for Vlora (1941–1943). At the II National Liberation Conference (September 1943) he was elected a member of the National Liberation General Council; at the Përmet Congress (May 1944), member of the Anti-Fascist National Liberation Council and its leadership, member of the General Staff of the National Liberation Army (1944), political commissar of Corps I of the National Liberation Army (1944). After Liberation, he was awarded with high functions in important sectors of the state, the economy, the army and diplomacy; in the years 1950-1956 he was Minister of Agriculture and Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers. Member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Labor Party of Albania from 1944, secretary of the CQ of the Central Committee of the Labor Party of Albania (1956–1979). Member of the People’s Assembly in all legislatures. He passed away in Paris, after a serious illness. (In the photo: Hysni Kapo)
Text: Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 2 , Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2008, page 1117.
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