Vojo Kushi
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| Born | August 3, 1918 Shkodër |
| Died | October 10, 1942 Tirana |
| Nationality | Albanian |
| Other names | Kušić |
| Occupation | Albanian resistance in World War II |
| Political party |
Communist Party of Albania Communist Party of Yugoslavia |
| Awards |
Hero of Albania (posthumous) People's Hero (Yugoslav) (posthumous) |
Vojo Kushi (August 3, 1918 – October 10, 1942) was an Albanian and Yugoslav communist guerilla fighter (partisan) and one of the founders of the Communist group based in Shkodër, following the Italian occupation of Albania in April 1939. He was proclaimed a National Hero of Yugoslavia by the Yugoslav communist government on February 12, 1945, and then a Hero of Albania by the Albanian communist government in 1946.
Kushi was born in 1918, in Vrakë, near Shkodër. He belonged to the Serb-Montenegrin (or Yugoslav) minority. His original surname was Kušić (Serbian Cyrillic: Кушић); due to King Zog's state politics following 1920, surnames with obvious Slavic suffixes such as '-ić' and '-vić' were removed, as were Slavic-speaking schools. The minority was instrumental in the National Liberation.
Following the Italian occupation of Albania in April 1939, the first communist revolutionary organization was established in Shkodër (Shkodër group), which included minority members brothers Vaso and Branko Kadija, Vojo Kushi, Jordan Misja, Ivo Jovanov, Vojin Dragović, Petar Bulatović and Vasil Shanto. The Shkodër group was led by Shanto and Qemal Stafa. The other organization, established in Korçë (Korçë group), was united into one on November 8, 1941, in Tirana, at the house of Bojko Lazarov, hence forming the Communist Party of Albania. In 1942, he was chosen as a member of the regional committee for Tirana and appointed commander of guerilla units.Enver Hoxha was appointed the Party leader in order to include the majority Muslim population.
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