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Vito Kapo

Vito Kapo

Albanian politician (1922–2020)

Vito Kapo (née Kondi, 11 September 1922 – 29 February 2020) was an Albanian politician who served as Minister of the Light Industry. She was the wife of Hysni Kapo, a member of the Politburo of the Party of Labour of Albania, and a sister of the Albanian World War II hero Alqi Kondi.[1] She was also the President of the Union of Albanian Women for nearly thirty years. Kapo was born in September 1922 in Zagori, Gjirokaster District.[2] She died in February 2020 in Tirane at the age of 97.

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In her work as President of the Union of Albanian Women, she stated that the struggle the Party of Labour of Albania was waging for the emancipation of women was a "struggle for the triumph of revolutionary ideology of the working class, and the destruction of the reactionary bourgeois and petit bourgeois ideology."[3]

Sources

  1. [1]
    Robert Elsie (2010). Historical Dictionary of Albania. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 225. ISBN 978-0-8108-6188-6.
  2. [2]
    Buda, Aleks (1985). Fjalor enciklopedik shqiptar (in Albanian). Akademia e Shkencave e RPSSH. p. 454.
  3. [3]
    Prifti, Peter (1978). Socialist Albania since 1944: Domestic and Foreign Developments. Cambridge: MIT Press. p. 97. ISBN 0-262-16070-6.
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