Teuta Hoxha says she remains determined despite growing fears for her health and five other prisoners staging protest ...
Enver Hoxha: The Iron Fist of Albania tells the extraordinary story of how one man held an entire country hostage for 40 years – and got away with it. Enver Hoxha. Wikimedia. CC. Between 1944 and 1985 ...
For four decades, he ruled Albania with an iron fist, imposing Stalinist principles and leading the western Balkan state into isolation and poverty. So the idea that his former home in central Tirana ...
At a Christmas party for Labour staff, the party’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn, quoted Enver Hoxha — which is shocking news. Labour has a Christmas party? (Surely they don’t call it a Christmas party.) ...
Hoxha proclaimed Albania the world’s first atheist state and oversaw much economic progress, but adopted the practices of autocracy Enver Hoxha: The Iron Fist of Albania By Blendi Fevziu, I.B. Tauris, ...
Like other powerful women in the traditionally male-dominated societies of the Balkans during the communist era, Nexhmije Hoxha, Albania’s “first lady” for more than 40 years, owed her influence to ...
Littering the Albanian countryside and mountain valleys are hundreds of thousands of little concrete bunkers. These bunkers – bunkerët, were built from the 1960s to the 1980s, during the communist ...
Albania`s new leader pledged Monday to uphold the isolated Balkan country`s hardline Stalinist policies during a massive funeral ceremony for his predessor, Enver Hoxha, the world`s longest-serving ...
During the mass CND marches of more than 30 years ago, groups travelling to London would amuse themselves by singing an absurd anthem that went “Enver Hoxha is our Leader, Happy! Happy! Happy!” There ...
The clues are out there, if you know where to look. Scattered across far-flung corners of the internet, there is evidence that Zulfi Hoxha, the son of an Albanian American pizza-shop owner from New ...
Zulfi Hoxha exhibited patterns of radicalization are undeniable, starting with the dubious internet social media accounts such as his use of Pal talk, and concluding with an ISIS propaganda video said ...
The image of Enver Hoxha, a feared tyrant, was once everywhere in Albania. His last intact statue is watched over by a partly blind, 80-year-old defender. “Nobody wants him anymore.” By Andrew Higgins ...