During the Cold War, Albanian leader Enver Hoxha scattered a colony of 175,000 concrete bunkers across the country. This is ...

Hoxha’s rule of terror murdered 5,577 men and 450 women in Albania. Communist regimes throughout history have produced their fair share of cults of personality (cue the eponymous 1988 song by Living ...

Russian leader Vladimir Putin insists that Russia will not lose in Ukraine and that Russia has rarely lost a war. The reality is that Russia has been defeated 38 times in the past 1,100 years since ...

Communist regimes throughout ... comes from the United States, and many [Albanian troops] have been trained in the United States. So, our army right now is completely aligned with what NATO ...

announced a plan in March 2024 to develop a luxury resort on the site of a communist-era military base in Albania, Prime Minister Edi Rama did not hide his enthusiasm. “We need super luxury like ...

Though the outbreak of wider war swept Pearson into the British Army, he maintained his interest ... civil conflict from which emerged Enver Hoxha’s ruthless Communist regime. Commander of Albania’s ...

Enver Hoxha gathered the main leaders of the army and the party ... "the wild eats its own offspring", even the communist system, in nearly half a century of rule in Albania, terrorized political ...

President Donald Trump’s abrupt freeze of U.S. foreign aid is sending shockwaves through Eastern Europe, leaving pro-democracy ...

He had begun as a precocious adolescent in a communist Albania that was full of hope after a devastating ... The General of the Dead Army was published to international acclaim in Paris in 1970. Now ...

The Albanian case is very similar to the problems that the Croat 19 th century nationalists faced with the acute lack of relevant ingredients for forging the nation, what they needed: land, people, ...