Enver Hoxha Part 1: The Albanian School Teacher

From 1944 to 1985, Enver Hoxha ran Albania as an extraordinarily
repressive Stalinist dictatorship. But how did a middle class
teacher from the provinces become the most powerful man in the
country and a key player in the communist world? What did he do to
turn Albania into one of the most isolated countries in the world?
And how did ‘Uncle Enver’ keep his citizens in the dark for so much
of the 20th century? A Noiser production, written by Sean Coleman.
Many thanks to Bernd Fischer, Artan Hoxha and Shannon Woodcock.
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