Like Dante's Inferno, Communism has its different levels of horror and misery. At the bottom of the pit, by almost any measure, lies Albania. Last week a Cabinet minister of Albania's still strongly Stalinist government, Major General Panajot Plaku, fled his rugged country, at night crept along mountain paths he had known as a partisan in World War II, and crossed into Yugoslavia. Plaku is the most important ranking Communist among the 5,000 to 6,000 Albanians who have fled his benighted country since the war.
Since Tito's expulsion from the Cominform in 1948,...
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