An American in Albania


	An American in Albania

CrazyRedHead

7-1-2008 12:13 PM

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europe, albania, politics, america, travel, photography

CrazyRedHead says:

...The Albanians of Montenegro were lucky, I thought as we approached the customs agents, to live under Josip Broz Tito's relatively lenient communist system in Yugoslavia instead of suffering Enver Hoxha's full-bore Stalinist regime just a few miles away in Albania proper. Hoxha, who ranks among the most thoroughly oppressive tyrants in history, made Tito's dictatorship look libertarian....

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7-1-2008 2:16 PM

righthand

Informative clip. Tks

7-3-2008 4:45 AM

merrie

It's such a beautiful country! thanks, CRH

7-3-2008 11:53 AM

Socratoad

Wonderful clip. Thank you.

Usually we here so very little regarding this seemingly mysterious country.

During Enver Hoxa's time he deliberately kept it isolated, thus feeding his own cruel insane paranoia.

And now that the Balkan wars have begun to fade into memory once more Albania seems destined to fall from the interest of the media and/or the usual band of news manipulators.

Anyone present still remember Nicaragua?

7-3-2008 2:53 PM

righthand

Nicaragua? Is it independent yet?

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