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Enver Hoxha: Stalin’s devilish disciple

Blendi Fevziu describes how after 40 years’ rule ‘Uncle Enver’ left Albania the third poorest country in the world

14 May 2016

9:00 AM

14 May 2016

9:00 AM

Enver Hoxha: The Iron Fist of Albania Blendi Fevziu, translated by Majlinda Nishku

I.B. Tauris, pp.312, £25, ISBN: 9781784534851

In his final public appearance, the Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha addressed a Tirana crowd to commemorate the capital’s liberation from German invaders on the 28 November 1944. The Hoxha who had entered the city as a communist partisan was now a weak old man. He was often confined to a wheelchair, had to be hoisted on to his podium using a custom-built lift and was only prevented from falling by camouflaged safety rails.

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