Albanian Bunkers
byThere are 750,000 concrete military bunkers reported to exist across Albania. They were built during the communist regime of Enver Hoxha between 1960’s and…
Communism
Pyramid Schemes
byThe Pyramid scheme phenomenon in Albania in 1997 at its peak was worth half the country’s GDP. Around two-thirds of the population had invested…
The Fall of Communism
byStudent protests in Tirana in December 1990 marked the fall of communism in Albania. Hoxha’s statue in central Tirana was famously toppled by the…
Enver Hoxha
byPrime minister of Albania, First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania and Albanian communist politician. Hoxha ruled Albania with an iron grip…
A Brief History of Albania
byAlbania, the small Balkan country in the south east of Europe. Today Albania is best known for tourism; beautiful nature, beaches, mountains and…
How did Kosovo become a country?
byIn 2008, Kosovo became Europe’s newest country. Kosovo came into existence because of Europe’s most brutal sectarian conflict since WWII. Slobodan Milosevic, nationalist leader…
Rise of Nationalism – Franjo Tudjman
byNationalism has been prevalent in Croatia since before World War II. Ante Pavelic, a military dictator and Croatian fascist, founded the ultranationalist movement known…
The Bosnian War – How it all began
byIn the aftermath of the Second World War, the Balkan states of Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, and Macedonia became better known as the…