One of the leaders of the Communist Party in Albaina, Liri Belishova died on Monday at 91. She was a member of the political bureau and of the Central Committee of the Labor Party.
Born in the village of Belishova, Mallakaster, Belishova was the daughter of Albanian patriot Kamber Belishova who was a participant in the Congress of Durres and the Vlora War. She attended the Queen Mother Pedagogical Institute in Tirana, along with Nexhmije Hoxha, Ramize Gjebrea, Fiqiret Shehu and Vito Kapo.
Belishova joined the National Liberation Movement of Albania and lost one eye. During 1946 and 1947 she was Albania's president of the Popular Youth (Rinia Popullore).
The death of her husband, Nako Spiru, in 1946, an alleged suicide, led to her dismissal from her role and she was sent from Tirana to Berat to teach.
After Nako Spiru was rehabilitated, as a result of the Yugoslav-Albanian split, in 1948, Belishova was rehabilitated as well, and became a member of the Politburo of the Party of Labour of Albania from 1948 to 1960.
She attended, along with Ramiz Alia, the Marxist-Leninist institute of the Moscow State University from 1952 to 1954, and married during this period her second husband, Maqo Çomo, who was Minister of Agriculture during 1954-60.