The image of Enver Hoxha, a feared tyrant, was once everywhere in Albania. His last intact statue is watched over by a partly blind, 80-year-old defender. “Nobody wants him anymore.” ...

Empty bottles and syringes littered the floor, which was covered in polished marble when the pyramid — a shrine to Albania’s late Communist dictator, Enver Hoxha — first opened in 1988, but ...

Former communist dictator Enver Hoxha left Albania covered by thousands of bunkers. Now the once-isolated country is giving them a second life by turning them into gastronomic and cultural ...

The home of Albania’s late communist dictator Enver Hoxha is hosting international artists fascinated by the long-ruling leader’s library, the country’s history of isolation and its unique ...

Enver Hoxha. Wikimedia. CC. Between 1944 and 1985, the small Balkan nation of Albania was ruled by a strange, sociopathic and, frankly, completely mad dictator by the name of Enver Hoxha.

She and Enver Hoxha, who was almost 13 years her senior, met at a Communist Party meeting in 1941. They were married in 1945. Survivors include three children and several grandchildren.

The idea of his former home in Albania's capital being opened up to all and sundry would have horrified Enver Hoxha, the communist dictator who died in 1985 - and that's exactly the point.

Enver Hoxha ruled Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985. His Communism was practically on the North Korean level: total, crushing, absolute. Life in Poland or Hungary was easy by comparison.

That night, authorities took the decision to remove the name of Enver Hoxha from the university. February 20 entered the history books and in 2010 the date was declared the remembrance day for ...

Hoxha proclaimed Albania the world’s first atheist state and oversaw much economic progress, but adopted the practices of autocracy Enver Hoxha: The Iron Fist of Albania By Blendi Fevziu, I.B ...

Former communist dictator Enver Hoxha left Albania covered by thousands of bunkers. Now the once-isolated country is giving them a second life by turning them into gastronomic and cultural ...