Canadian Cultural Workers' Committee - Oh Albania Red Star That Burns Bright

      [Intro]
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[Chorus]
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Oh Albania, red star that burns bright
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The world's illuminate by your light
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Socialism is mankind's destiny
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We swear to fight 'til final victory
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We swear to fight 'til final victory

[Verse 1]
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Workers and peasants of Albania
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And the people's intelligentsia

The PLA makes them conscious of the task:
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Build socialism! The Party leads the class!

The chains are broken, new forces are released
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Workers and peasants have seized their destiny

Transforming mountains, the seacoast, and the fields
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Under the control the working class wields

[Chorus]
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Oh Albania, red star that burns bright
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The world's illuminate by your light
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Socialism is mankind's destiny
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We swear to fight 'til final victory
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We swear to fight 'til final victory

[Verse 2]
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Resisting every invasion of her land,
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National traitors crushed by her hand,

It's socialism Albania defends;
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Marxist principles will guide her to the end.

The mighty eagle from the battlement
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Surveys the enemy encirclement.

Life and death struggle requires vigilance;
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The Party arms two million soldiers for defence.

[Chorus]
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Oh Albania, red star that burns bright
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The world's illuminate by your light
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Socialism is mankind's destiny
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We swear to fight 'til final victory
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We swear to fight 'til final victory

[Verse 3]
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The Seventh Congress cuts through all the lies
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That the opportunists in a frenzy have devised.

The Marxist-Leninists grow stronger every day
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Inspired by the glorious PLA.

We must defend the socialist homeland.
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It's the proletarian internationalist stand.

Led by our Marxist-Leninist communist party,
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We'll end the rule of the bourgeoisie.

[Chorus]
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Oh Albania, red star that burns bright
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The world's illuminate by your light
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Socialism is mankind's destiny
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We swear to fight 'til final victory
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We swear to fight 'til final victory