Enver Hoxha: few people know the life and work of the man who ruled Albania with an iron fist.
And few people also remember that he enjoyed the fanatical admiration of those who were still called, not so long ago in France, the Maoists.
In
Enver Hoxha.
Albania, the red years (1944-1991)
, the former major reporter of Le
Monde
Bertrand Le Gendre reminds us aptly.
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His book would be hilarious at times if the reality described there was not so dramatic.
Dictators age poorly, and Hoxha, who took power in 1944 in Albania only to leave it upon his death in 1985, is no exception to the rule.
His statue which represented him taking a firm step towards a radiant future has long since been demolished in Tirana, where the communist regime he presided over collapsed in 1991. The countless portraits which adorned the buildings of the smallest village in this country barely larger than Sicily have joined a “trash can of history”…
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