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Albania
Democratic Front
Among the most important of Albania's mass organizations was
the Democratic Front, which in August 1945 succeeded the National
Liberation Front (previously the National Liberation Movement)
as the party's most important auxiliary. As the broadest mass
organization, the Democratic Front was supposed to give expression
to the political views of the population and to carry out mass
political education. The main tasks of this organization were
to strengthen the political unity between the party and the people
and to mobilize the masses in favor of the implementation of the
APL's policies. Ideological indoctrination, the spreading of Marxist-Leninist
ideas, was another goal of the front. The Democratic Front, as
an umbrella organization for cultural, professional, and political
groups, was open to all citizens who were at least eighteen years
old. It was chaired until December 1990 by Hoxha's widow, Nexhmije,
herself a member of the APL Central Committee.
Data as of April 1992
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