Judith Vidal-Hall
Last of the Stalinists
Enver Hoxha: The Iron Fist of Albania
By Blendi Fevziu (Translated by Majlinda Nishku)
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Travel writers are tipping Albania as the next tourist hotspot, but what do we know of this ancient country? There is ‘luxury and inconvenience on the one hand, liberty, hard living, and filth on the other … Shut out … by iron walls of mountain, surrounded by the sternest features of savage scenery, rock and chasm, precipice and torrent, a more fearful prospect, and more chilling to the very blood, I never beheld.’
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