Albania - Europe's last forgotten corner
I’m kicking around Europe’s last forgotten corner. Communism finally collapsed in this tiny country a couple of years after it had fallen apart in the rest of Europe. Enver Hoxha, the long term ruler of Europe’s last outpost of Stalinism and then Maoism, had died in the mid-80s, but somehow Albania remained isolated and forgotten until, finally, the angry mob pulled Hoxha’s statue over in the main square of the capital, Tirana in 1992...
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