Letters from Prison
Vangjel Lezho
By Decision No. 5, dated 2-06.XII.1963, of the Supreme Court, [he/she] was sentenced on charges of treason, terrorist acts, and agitation and propaganda, based on Articles 64, 67-10, 14, and 73/1 of the Penal Code, to 25 years of imprisonment. In May 1979, the sentence was re-imposed, with the death penalty by shooting, on the charge of hostile agitation and propaganda carried out in collaboration, as provided for by Articles 55/I and 13 of the Penal Code.
An excerpt from the letter written by Vangjel Lezho in the Spaç prison camp, during the time he was serving his sentence, addressed to Ramiz Ali, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party, is dated 01.08.1978. In May 1979, he was re-sentenced to death by shooting.
…You, as leaders, have grown old, physiologically, but due to the deceptive and self-deceptive fate, you have also made the people age along with their eternal youth in their bosom. You did not betray your own fate, but you betrayed the aspirations and the original inspiration of the people, who, in the backdrop of your luxurious life and doctrinaire vices, are suffering as the great Roman philosopher Seneca says – Fire!
This is what they call irony of fate, both in your address to the 'court' of the Central Committee and in your address to the people. You promised the people scientific socialism and served them a feudal, doctrinaire socialism, which day by day is more and more tearing away its disguised face and exposing the historical criminality and the failed incompetence to understand the dialectical and materialist flow of human history in general, and the Socialist Camp with the USSR in particular. Charlatanism has no horns. Therefore, the so-called betrayal of the USSR did not need horns. It was enough just to step onto the platform of the 81 parties in Moscow and inform the world about some gossip concerning wheat...
