Femijet enver hoxha biography

Stalinism, that particularly brutal phase of communism, came to an end in most of Eastern Europe with the death of Josef Stalin in or at least with the Khrushchev reforms that began in the Soviet Union in However, in one country &#; Albania &#; Stalinism survived virtually unscathed until The regime that the Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha led from the time of the communist takeover in until his death in , and that continued unabated under his successor Ramiz Alia until , was incomparably severe. Such was the reign of terror that no audible voice of opposition or dissent ever arose in the Balkan state, a European country that became as isolated from the rest of the world as North Korea is today. When the Albanian communist system finally imploded, it left behind a weary population, frightened and confused after decades of purges and political terror. It also left behind a country with a weak and fragile economy, a country where extreme pove

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