Vasil studied at Robert College in
Constantinople, then took a job at the Elbasan Normal School in his hometown. He became a teacher at a high school in
Tirana in 1939 and taught in
Prishtina in the early 1940s. In 1942, he joined the Nationalist National Front led by
Midhat Frashëri and became its General Secretary. During the battles between the Communist-led National Liberation Movement and the National Front, he joined the National Front units fighting in the mountains of Central Albania in late 1943. Unlike many of his party counterparts, he opposed collaboration with German invaders. ==Ideology==