– Enver Hoxha –
February 26, 1956
All night I read the secret report by N. Khrushchev that was given to us the same as all the other foreign delegations. The report rejects the figure and work of the great Stalin.
I understood the positions of Khrushchev and the others towards Stalin and his glorious work during the Congress proceedings where his name was not once mentioned for good, but I did not think they could get to this point.
I shudder to think how the bourgeoisie and the reactionaries will rejoice when they get their hands on this report, what slander campaign they will launch and how long it will last. Then let Tito rejoice and be proud, as surely, he has read it.
What incalculable damage to the Soviet Union and the socialist camp! What a shameful responsibility before history!
I cannot write anything else. It is too little to say: “I am shocked!”
(Congress of Betrayal, p. 6)