The bunkers are a legacy of the People’s Socialist Republic of Albania, once one of the world’s most isolationist communist ...
The bunkers dot the landscape like cement warts, gobbling up farmland that is already in short supply. They are the most tangible reminder of the paranoid isolationism of Albania's late dictator, ...
TIRANA, Albania — Concrete bunkers — an enduring symbol of Albania’s harsh Cold War isolation — were dragged off a beach and destroyed Wednesday at a popular southern resort with the help of an aging ...
Tirana (CNN) — Walk by the home of Albania’s former communist dictator Enver Hoxha in central Tirana and you may not even know it. There is no sign to mark its historical significance. The two-story ...
Albania’s communist-era military bunkers – now a tourist attraction but also a reource for experimental artists – are dotted everywhere, from beaches to mountain tops. Bunkers – Albania has plenty of ...
A facility that was designed to keep Albania running after a nuclear attack is the latest relic of the country's dark Communist past that is being reinvented as a modern tourist attraction. In its ...
TIRANA (Reuters) - Albanians who resisted the policies of paranoid dictator Enver Hoxha are now trying to preserve part of his most notorious jail - to remind the country's young elite of the dangers ...