"Artillery" to kill you without bullets

In addition to the partisan formations during the war, the Party Technique was created. But we will stop at the party technique of the Berat District, which operated within the 7th Assault Brigade. At the head of it were elected partisans, who knew about the technique. Nexhmi Ballka was appointed to lead it, who then became commissar of the third battalion of the 7th Brigade. The technique had a working nature, which were invisible. As such, they worked all night, where they printed tracts and documents that helped the brigade and the party cells. Anyone who saw them wandering in the shadows of the trees during the day, taking a nap, called them lazy people. The rifles rattled all over the country, and those who had the rifles. In a conversation with one of the technicians, Dhosi Odriçani, he told us that we are really invisible, but our artillery would kill you without bullets. And who distributed those documents that were drawn up at night by the technicians to the partisan formations? None of the young people of the villages where the technique worked, was dictated to. But the boys used to steal them at night and make them disappear without anyone seeing them. In fact, the technique was very poor. She had only two typewriters "Olevet" and "Everest" and a typewriter, a quantity of paper, 100 carbon threads, five ink tubes, three book sewing machines, a radio and 460 pieces of wax paper. In a letter sent to the Brigade Headquarters, the technician reported: "The tools available to the technician are not numerous. The typewriter is not in good condition. We feel a lack of paper even though we withdrew the reserves we had left from the reaction in Berat. For this reason, we are using economy for the release of 200 pieces of communication, which are distributed in the field and in the army, and we have reproduced books from those we see most necessary, whether for the cells, whether for the youth, or for the educational groups. However, with this poverty of technique and with these books that we have, you should pay more attention to the expenditure of this subject that we have, we hope to make a step forward in the cultural development sector of the organization. With the departure of Comrade Nexhmi, the technique has remained directly under our care, while the compilation of communiques has been entrusted to Comrade Pipi Bakalli for the reason that he is at the base of Staravecka and is in the best current of external news. For the technical sector we need a typewriter and some paper for tracts and some wax paper. We need a lot of books, especially the books "10 days that shook the world" and "Life of Stalingrad." (AQS, fund 14, file 113) 13.04.1944. The technique had extended its illegal activity in several villages of Skrapar, such as in Gjorgjovë, Krushovë, Osojë, Koritë and Nishovë. Nexhmi Bllaka, Dhosi Odriçani, Adil Stërmasi, Mehqemeja worked in this technique, who worked with poor finances. In that poverty that was created by the war, the party was assigned by a quate to its cells. In a letter addressed to the Brigade Headquarters, they inform: "The head of this sector was Nexhmi Ballka, but today the party has no money except what the party has contributed these 7-8 months in Berat. Now with the new organization, all the cells of the field are being applied to quaitization. Cellula e Nahija has set a permanent quota of 63 Albanian francs.