communist albania

The Vlora incident occured in April of 1961 during the Albanian-Soviet split, when Albanian troops laid seige the Soviet naval base at Vlora and forced Soviets to withdraw, resulting in the casualties of numerous Soviet sailors. In response, Khrushchev enacted sanctions on Albania and ended...

Of all of Eastern Europe's communist dictators, Enver Hoxha stands as one of the most notorious. A brutal, paranoid hardline Stalinist, he successively broke with Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union and China because he considered them "too revisionist", effectively leaving Albania isolated from the...