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Albania Remembers Hoxha’s Communist Legacy
Hoxha’s rule of terror murdered 5,577 men and 450 women in Albania. Communist regimes throughout history have produced their ...
Butrint: The ancient site helping Albania reclaim its identity
Once known as "the North Korea of Europe", Albania is turning to its millennia-old sites and rich cultural heritage to recast ...
Did Albania’s prime minister call the US ‘one of the three evils in the world’?
A video circulating on social media claims to show Prime Minister Edi Rama labelling the US, Soviet Union and Israel as the ...
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‘Sole Force,’ They Called Him
Indeed, it was Hoxha who prompted my book: While in Albania, I wondered what it must be like to be his son or daughter. Let me remind you about the old man: Enver Hoxha ruled Albania from 1944 ...
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HUMAN RIGHTS IN POST-COMMUNIST ALBANIA
During his forty-year reign, the Albanian leader Enver Hoxha banned religion, forbade travel and outlawed private property. Any resistance to his rule was met with severe retribution, including ...
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ALBANIA: THE GREEK MINORITY
Despite these important achievements, a great deal remains to be done to overcome the brutal legacy of communist dictator Enver Hoxha. The complete absence under communism of independent courts ...
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Open New Year’s Day – discuss what you like…
Many of us will be glad to see the back of 2024 and let’s hope 2025 will be better for us all. I will leave you with the inspiring words of Enver Hoxha, the Albanian Stalinist dictator. In his 1967 ...