UN General Assembly
1956

62. On this twenty-ninth day of November, the Albanian people are celebrating their national holiday, the twelfth anniversary of their liberation from Hitlerite occupation. In the course of this relatively short time, profound changes have occurred in Albania. Thanks to the persistent toil of its people and the very valuable and disinterested aid of the Soviet Union and other peoples’ democracies, Albania, once a backward agrarian country, has developed both its agriculture and its industry. At the time of its liberation, 85 per cent of the people were illiterate; today, there are no illiterates under forty years of age; the number of schools has increased fourfold, and the first university, comprising six higher institutes with seventeen faculties, has been founded. The number of health establishments has increased from nine to 400.