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Jul 25, 2024 · A book by communist-era dictator Enver Hoxha abandoned in Berat. Photo: Robert Pichler. Few Kosovo Albanians were ever able to compare communist and post-communist Albania given the restrictive...
Aug 6, 2024 · Enver Hoxha (/ˈhɒdʒə/ HOJ-ə, 16 October 1908 – 11 April 1985) was an Albanian communist revolutionary and statesman who served as the First Secretary of the Party of Labor of Albania, from 1941 until his death in 1985.
Aug 12, 2024 · The Albanian leader Enver Hoxha, pictured in 1971. In September 1956, Enver Hoxha headed a delegation of the Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Albania (PLA) at the 8th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. Writing years later of his impressions of the country before the visit, he noted that:
5 days ago · Personifying the paranoia that defined the communist leadership of Enver Hoxha from 1944 until his death in 1985, they were built primarily in strategic locations like clifftops, but are also anchored in the fields, on street corners and along coastlines in case of a raid by enemies – enemies that proved illusory.
Jul 30, 2024 · Hoxha, Enver (b. Gjirokaster, 16 Oct. 1908; d. Tirana, 11 Apr. 1985) Albanian leader 1946–85 Source: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Author(s): Christopher Riches, Jan Palmowski. Hoxha was born into a Muslim landowning family of the Tosk clan. He studied and resided in France from 1930... ...
Jul 28, 2024 · The regime that the Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha led from the time of the communist takeover in 1944 until his death in 1985, and that continued unabated under his successor Ramiz Alia until 1990, was incomparably severe.
4 days ago · The Warsaw Pact ( WP ), [ d] formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance ( TFCMA ), [ e] was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War.