Llazar Fundo
| Llazar (Zai) Fundo | |
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| Born |
March 20, 1899 Korce, Korce, Albania |
| Died | September 1944 Kolesjan, Kukës, Albania |
| Nationality | Albanian |
Llazar (Zai) Fundo (born March 20, 1899 in Görice, Manastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire died September 1944 in Kukës, Albania) was an Albanian Communist, later social-democratic journalist and writer. He was a former member of the Comintern and the Balkan Communist Federation. He was associated with the Fan S. Noli government in 1924 and became the leader of the Bashkimi organization after the death of Avni Rustemi in 1924. In 1928 he helped establish the Korçë Communist Group. In the fierce rivalty for power control within the CPA, he was branded a Trotskyist and purged from the Party.
Fundo was born in Görice (now Korçë, Albania) to a family of merchants originating from Moscopole, of Vlach origin. He attended the French Lycée of Salonica and later studied law in Paris, France. He was the mentor to other Albanian Communist students in Paris, including future Albanian leader Enver Hoxha, to whom he taught law.
Upon returning to Albania he was a member of Avni Rrustemi's Bashkimi organization which he later took over upon Rrustemi's death by assassination in April 1924. Fundo developed connections with Orthodox Bishop Fan S. Noli and played an active role in forcing then-Prime Minister Ahmet Zogu's exile to Yugoslavia that same year. Upon the overthrow of Noli's government in November 1924, Fundo emigrated to Vienna, Austria, becoming member of KONARE thus acquainted with the Balkan Communist Federation (CBF), and then emigrated to the Soviet Union where he became a member of the Comintern.
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