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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with another video on the history of Albania, as we describe the rule of Enver Hoxha who created a hermit kingdom in Europe during the period. Western Attempts to Overthrow Stalinist Albania: https://youtu.be/do0kEBU0_d8 Sovietization of Yugoslavia and Albania: https://youtu.be/TMSJDFsJScA Indonesian War of Independence: https://youtu.be/LBh3quIaTsI How a CIA Coup in Indonesia Failed: https://youtu.be/Vx2LnduUEU4 Konfrontasi: Indonesia and Malaysia Go to War: https://youtu.be/k0l2Iz2lvao West New Guinea Dispute: Indonesia vs Netherlands: https://youtu.be/CP1oVfPB0GU How did Mongolia Survive Between Stalin's USSR and Mao's China? https://youtu.be/GuMhvYfkRcY Taiwan Under the Kuomintang Dictatorship: https://youtu.be/nGYzXNpQclo What Happened to the German and Japanese POWs?: https://youtu.be/JLK1xQV9B84 Operation Paperclip: https://youtu.be/17cNgMpBiWw German Expulsions: https://youtu.be/zyWx4p4hiaY Soviet Education System: https://youtu.be/AD_JwbivtMA How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People: https://youtu.be/qIZDa7ZcUhE Novocherkassk Massacre 1962: https://youtu.be/b06Gfm2QVxY Soviet Tourism: https://youtu.be/t9KrH-xG20Q Soviet Passport System: New Serfdom or Reform?: https://youtu.be/Dgr9F3WFsbo Kaliningrad: How Russia Got a Stronghold in Europe: https://youtu.be/QD6IWHFkYpc How the Soviets Won the Early Space Race: https://youtu.be/skyrA0l9erI Soviet Television and Radio: https://youtu.be/YcBKRMJI7Ck Top-5 Myths About the Soviet Union: https://youtu.be/eMBh5zbN3K4 Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TheColdWar Youtube membership https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGvq-qmjFmmMD4e-PLQqGg/join ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/thecoldwar ✔ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/thecoldwar ✔ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/thecoldwartv ✔ Instagram ►http://www.instagram.com/thecoldwartv #ColdWar #Albania #Hoxha Sources: Artan Puto and Mimoza Dhima, “The Cult of Personality: King Zog I and Enver Hoxha,” International Journal of Social and Educational Innovation, Vol.3, No.5 (2016) Elidor Mehilli, From Stalin to Mao: Albania and the Socialist World (Cornell University Press, 2017) Russell King and Julie Vullnetari, “From shortage economy to second economy: An historical ethnography of rural life in communist Albania,” Journal of Rural Studies, Vol.44 (2016) Shannon Woodcock, Life is War: Surviving Dictatorship in Communist Albania (Hammeron Press, 2016) Fred Abrahams, Modern Albania: From Dictatorship to Democracy in Europe (New York University Press, 2015) Konstantinos Giakoumis and Marijan Premovic, “Underground spirituality and materiality: religious culture under surveillance and persecution in communist Albania, 1967-1990,” Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Vol.23, No.4 (2023) Blendi Fevziu, Enver Hoxha: The Iron Fist of Albania (I.B Tauris, 2016)