How Scammers Destroyed an Entire Country

[@FlyWithMe_666]

I fell victim to a scam before and learned my lesson! Now I met this nice Nigerian prince online who’ll help me out, so everything will be fine.

[@sharathbabugc]

😂

[@kurtilein3]

Be careful, i heared the nigerian prince got married to the russian model.

[@medokn99]

/s

[@hhKJgf1M8a0rzt8hP]

Nigeria apparently has a lot of princes, every day I get an email from a different one.

[@jonb3189]

That Nigerian prince is right now helping me also. 😂

[@redtsun67]

It's always so awkward when a family member or friend comes to you with a "business plan" and it turns out to be a pyramid scheme and you gotta explain to them that they have essentially been scammed. Even worse when they don't want to believe you.

[@juniorjames7076]

Mary Kay Cosmetics, AMWAY, etc.

[@souvikrc4499]

@@juniorjames7076 Herbalife, and as ColdFusion covered a couple of years ago, OneCoin

[@iche9373]

At least he shouldn’t put all eggs in that basket.

[@sumayyahadetunmbi4347]

lmao fr

[@777hathor]

Remedy. Get them to take you to their recruiter and see all the products they have in their office or shed. Because these people buy products when they are on sale hoping to sell it at full price to your friend. That’s the trick. Also you need a car, storage space and a phone. Then there is the paper work, going to meetings and dropping off.. I worked out that I’d be working for $4 an hour. And that was a long time ago. Worst of all the products are insanely over priced..if your struggling they are the last thing to buy. 🥰

[@dirkpeeters6173]

Regarding your sponsor Aura, I am not judging Aura's technical quality per se, but, from a cyber security protection point of view, it is a really bad idea to trust one single company with so much of your sensitive data and, on top of that, use the same company for all your cybersecurity defences. It comes down to this, one product that claims to do everything never is the best in class in every single department and, in (cyber)security you never put all your eggs in a single basket.

[@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368]

Words of wisdom: "If it's advertised on KZbin, it's crap"

[@bangerxshane]

It's up to the buyer to research these things. If regulation of ads were too tight, then companies can't get their revenue, and the consumers end up with fewer options.

[@clray123]

@@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 Surely you mean "if it's advertised, it's crap".

[@fabio.santos]

Mine claims to do the same

[@thereignofthezero225]

​@@bangerxshane these commies don't get it

[@b-art6098]

I'm from Croatia and one of these scams also wrecked havoc in my country, fortunately my mother worked in a bank and knew what a pyramid scheme is. Unfortunately my father didn't know and he wanted to "invest" all of family money in one of these scams but he needed my mothers signature. He would try to "convince" her how this is great opportunity but she would not budge. Then he beat her in front of me and my brother but she still would not budge. In the end that money was used for me and my brother to finish college and we are successfully business owners now. The irony was that my father before he died borrowed money from me that I would not have if he "invested" it into one of these scams.

[@alb-333]

we just came out of one of the worst dictatorial regimes, we were isolated, the people had no information... they used propaganda as if the west was carrying out a marshal plan for the Albania.this was also a work of the enemy agencies, we know very well who performed this masquerade. After a year, Kosovo was attacked and Greece tries to annex the south of Albania...

[@olliefoxx7165]

Well....that's depressing

[@alanharding2485]

Good story, a moral learned at the end

[@TheTuta69]

Calmest Balkan argument

[@milanotovic8223]

Kao i Jezda i Defina pocetkom 90 tih ovdje. Iskreno takve stvari nisu mogle bez ucesca vladi.

[@AKANI32]

Albanian here, i was 6 yo and living in my grandma’s place near the center of Tirana (the capital). You can see the building behind the protesters at 11:01 Sali Berisha was the president (amongst others, who endorsed the pyramid schemes) he also sent the troops to quell the rebellion and ordered 2 fighter jets (only ones the country had) to fire on rebelling civilians. The pilot’s took off and sought asylum in other countries. I don’t remember much but i do remember seeing looting everywhere from the balcony of my grandma’s place. In different neighborhoods dads would form groups with any weapon they had to patrol and protect the neighborhood. This one time 2 masked guys with ak47 with black taped magazines (2 together on opposite ends) were stationed right underneath our balcony. My grandpa dropped water with a rope for them from the balcony (3rd floor). They were thanking us and saying they’d keep the building safe. Never knew who they were. In the distance you could see people just running across towards the central avenue with boxes and different looted items. There were stories of someone in a nearby neighborhood commandeering a tank but i never saw it. You could find shells everywhere on the ground and sometimes the shooting would start and never fully stop for an hour or so. You never knew where they were shooting from or to and lots of people had stories of stray bullets getting inside of apartments, we all ducked inside my grandma’s apartment when you could hear the shooting. I remember the word ricochet being used a lot. There were gangs blocking streets, emptying every car passing and stealing anything they could. Sali Berisha was reelected as prime minister this time in 2005 and stayed in power through 2013. The same guy who had vouched for the safety of the pyramid schemes was reelected somehow… Today he’s the leader of the opposition holding control over the Democratic Party. Survived an expulsion and managed to vote out the DP leader and took over the position. He’s still attempting to come back to power and people’s willingness to blindly follow him is so weird.

[@matthewdawang]

that's crazy and your ending part of the story was really the same pattern here in the philippines, our country was ruled by a dictator and our people overthrew them (kind of) and fast forward 4 decades later, his son was elected as the president 😂 sick

[@MisterKackhaufen]

Its crazy people reelect the one who destroyed their country. Did people forget his name or actions or is there some other reason they vote for him ?

[@vitelalex]

This happened in Romania after the fall of communism as well. It was called CARITAS here. It was said that at one point, a third of the country monetary supply was ran through the pyramid scheme. Pretty wild

[@gm2407]

The 90s must have been horrible in Romania when that happened.

[@emazio4122]

yea, but not to this degree

[@Akirilus]

@@gm2407 They were bad but we in Romania had an advantage, see Romania was in many ways extremely rich under communism. Not necessarily in terms of cash but we had cities recently built we had a lot of working farmland we had natural resources that could bring us back, that could feed the people despite the low money and we also had a lot of industry we eventually cut down and sold to outside powers to prop us up.

[@gm2407]

@@Akirilus So you had active assets (you were the beneficiaries of recent investment) that didn't need rebuilding from scratch to repair the cash shortage. That is a small mercy as without that it could have been a massively long term problem.

[@Akirilus]

@@gm2407 Yea, as you say. We were the beneficiaries of massive past efforts. Romania ended communism in a turning point, if we kept going we would have entered a bit of a golden age. The moment Romania had a revolution was a strange boiling point. We had been starved for like 10 years and worked to the bone to pay off all external debt and to advance the country. And we decided exactly at the moment where it would have all turned around to benefit us to have a revolution and kill our leaders in what I personally consider was murder as we had a mock trial and then an execution in the same day.

[@Monkey_D_Luffy56]

I tried to warn my aunt and uncle of the obvious scam they are trying to join. They are trying to join a business group but in exchange they'll need to invest roughly 500$ then they'll get a gift and if they invite another member they'll get a commission. I told them that it was an obvious pyramid scheme but they don't believe it and they got into a similar situation twice. They don't believe me since I'm just a teen

[@leas7830]

I am sorry to hear that. You are very smart. Unfortunately we adults can be really stupid and stubborn 🙄 And some need more than one teaching (if learn at all).

[@Monkey_D_Luffy56]

@@leas7830 It's just sometimes they can't see things that are obvious because they're occupied with something else like work, family or whatever that is but they need to be more skeptical on everything specially in this age where misinformation and scams are everywhere. I'm not that smart I'm still trying to learn things and I need adults to help me with that, not that stupid but yes REALLY stubborn sometimes 🤣

[@MattSuguisAsFondAsEverrr]

damn

[@qwopiretyu]

​@@Monkey_D_Luffy56 tell them to give you $500 instead, and promise them a gift, and a commission of the $500 they get your grandparents to give toyou. Then they'll get it

[@jjcoola998]

lol yeah you’re spot on they are about to join another pyramid scheme.

[@NomadAlb]

I remember, I was 9 years old at that time and asked my father where would these firms get the money to give us and others the promised interest. He said that since there are many people who invested on these firms, the money will be generated by other investors who don't want their profit right away. Even at 9 years old I struggled to find the logic in long-term, so I asked again, how would then the profit of these investors generated? Doesn't make sense...He answered after thinking a little bit: "At this point ( he already had invested all our savings ) I don't care what others do. I'm confident I'll get my part of the profit.... Needless to say we lost everything at that time

[@theunfinishedbasement]

I feel for you man. My father still tries to buy internet guru get rich quick courses and hes almost 60. We make him cancel every time ofc. Age does not have a monopoly on wisdom. If you did that stuff when you were poor then its out of desperation and its more forgivable. If you get into scams after your well off, its because of greed.

[@NomadAlb]

@@theunfinishedbasement It's like some people get blind on too easy to be true regarding these schemes...I don't know where this false hope of being true comes to them, even if they could've been burnt by similar ones. It's a mystery

[@alanwoodcock3284]

There were alot of pyramid schemes in the 80s/90s.

[@cowboycerrone2348]

I’m sorry to hear bro, I hope you and your family are doing well now.

[@kutter_ttl6786]

It's amazing when a 9 yrs old has more financial sense than a full-grown adult. I hope your family was able to recover from this.

[@blanknot_e]

I am from Albania. Sadly this socio-economic trauma is deeply rooted into the population perception on money. The general distrusts over economic institutions make us still rely on cash, online payments and such are still seen with skepticism. Cousins and relatives are still better resources to borrow money, loans are secondary, and corruption gets you anywhere. On the other hand tho, it is fascinating to see how fast things are moving, the shift in the economy is very visible these last 10 - 15 years. Tourism is booming and exports are seeing new fronts, as it goes with every population, hard work pays off, mistakes make you learn. Been a fan of this channel since early days, so much so it inspired me to create my own, seeing my countries name on a thumbnail sure did give me a goose bump or two! Keep the great work up!

[@arnowisp6244]

They are right. Cash is king.

[@user-qf5kl6cv2y]

@@arnowisp6244 Even the population of Germany, the richest nation in the EU agrees

[@petiadavis5122]

Cash is king!

[@dinos9607]

Finally, all that loot from Greece paid dividents.

[@unsrescyldas9745]

There is literally nothing wrong with what you said except "corruption gets you anywhere" seems like the Albanians learned their lessons.

[@PanosSkarp]

As someone who is from Greece and grew up in the 2000's i have to say that many of my classmates were recent immigrants from Albania. In the beginning they faced a lot of racism. And i am ashamed that i didn't know about what happened in Albania until now. And i wanted to cry. These people that i have met, have had so much hardship, just to get a low paying job and all that in a neighbouring country. Its very sad. Sending love to all the Albanian sisters and brothers and to our greek-albanian friends that we grew up with in Greece.

[@bletrick3352]

Thank you for your words! Albania was simply unlucky. Due to the fall of communism and the pyramid schemes the 90s were complete lost years. If things went differently Albania would almost be on par with Croatia and slightly behind Greece but instead it's 10-20 years behind both.

[@euphoriaggaminghd]

Thank you friend, I wish more greeks shared similar views, we are brothers after all

[@basedpatriotLT]

Are Albanians of different race than Greeks? Both look southern European white

[@euphoriaggaminghd]

@@basedpatriotLT I wouldn't say different race. We are cousins who have different cultures, languages and history. We are however, the only two ancient balkan races still in the peninsula.

[@PanosSkarp]

@@basedpatriotLT different ethnicity.

[@enkelito1]

The sad thing is that the bastards that let this happen ,they are still free living the life .

[@lautaroka5847]

The bastards are the idiots who fall for scams.

[@aitoluxd]

Crime does pay

[@putinski666]

Strong thrive by fucking the weak. That's the way of the world. All we can do is stay vigilant and try to prevent shit as much as we can

[@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368]

Now its cryptobros and rug-pulling finfluencers. I hope Sam Bankman-Fried gets 1,000 years in jail, followed by that slimey-looking g/f of his as well as Jake/Logan Paul, then every CEO that's ever faced a government fine. Then, in a wave of anti-corruption, the whole planet sheds the 1% and we enter Star Trek times.

[@vanesslifeygo]

😐😐😐😐

[@DaddyBLUE90S]

There should be more harsh punishments for these pyramid schemes.

[@LiveWireBT]

@teflontelefon I mostly agree with your statement and would extend that you need to know economy to differentiate how current economy works, what is healthy economy, and what is an outright scam. I'd say people fall quick to scams depending on the situation not because they are idiots, but because at one point everyone seems to be doing it and it seems to make sense, which is the closest point before a bust. In the past days one person in our neighborhood announced that she is moving out of her apartment with her daughter and pet and wants to get rid of all her furniture and most belongings to start an online business as a coach. (Not the other way around, starting the business first, then deciding if it is sustainable to move forward.) It didn't look to me like an educated decision that was carefully planned, so I tried to tell her that the market for personal trainers is crowded, that her writing looks like toxic positivity (lot's of hearts and addressing readers as "warm hearted persons") and that she has to pay taxes on the donation she is asking for (at a point in time when I hear from my favorite podcasters that they are loosing recurring donations due to the current economy). Why did I write all of this? Because this was her third attempt and the "flyer" she made for the third attempt was more like a short novel. I only had to repeat what was common knowledge from newspaper articles and prime time television from a few years ago (also some some videos on the channel here). And on the other hand I know how well my mothers business went with unambitious attitude many years ago. But I think the damage is done at this point. Sorry for the long example. It's still on my mind. Yes money has to come from somewhere. If there is too much money in the system (don't only look that the poor, look at the rich) then we have inflation or deflation. And in a time of platform economy don't expect to see customers flocking into your business out of thin air or being a sustainable source of income, the platform controls the eyeballs and sets the trends.

[@BilalKhan-yg9jc]

There's harsher punishments for ignorance unfortunately

[@sinisadencic8277]

Death penalty if it is done at the state level.

[@zzzzz45zzzzz79]

I mean if you fall for a pyramid scheme it’s not like you were bound for some great purpose anyways

[@sinisadencic8277]

@@zzzzz45zzzzz79 Does this apply when state policy is directly involved in and it promotes schemes trough the state bonds along with international partners without opposition? Do you comprihend magnitude of that? Then UN and NATO cavalry arrives. What's your purpose if state tells you to buy eg. war bonds?

[@laurenconrad1799]

It often feels like it’s easy to wipe out a country’s economy but painstakingly hard to grow it back. Similar to a single person gaining or losing weight.

[@saveriov.p.7725]

yes it's a challenge to maintain this mass. i keep becoming skinny again

[@TheIndogamer]

Takes days to create a good concrete wall. Takes seconds for a bomb to destroy it.... looking back at this reply I also thought: It takes days to create the bomb too. Takes months to create the tools to create concrete and tools to create bombs. Takes months to find the materials of the proper amount of cement to create concrete, and the TNT for bombs to blow the concrete wall. It just seems that destroying is faster than building, but maybe that's not always the case. In a way, the destruction had been constructed from the start, we just didn't see it.

[@turboed1337]

Took 40 years for Hoxha to improve it and then after death no prominent leader took the lead instead they fell in the trap of capitalism. I know it's not capitalism's fault, however cunning people always exist everywhere. It doesn't matter what ideology one has, left or right, what matter deeply to us people is personal satisfaction of being rich and socially achieving top hierarchy. These things are bound to happen. Can we elaborate and solve this problem in society? I believe we as a species need one major revolution in the context of evolution. We need to evolve morally.

[@freespiritable]

Most of the economy is based in Ponzi schemes. We were unlucky cause the mastermind behind it was the head of the country. People got cheated in such way.

[@freespiritable]

​@@turboed1337 i wouldn't say they fell in the trap of capitalism, I'd call it dor what it was, they were criminals that took advantage of people's ignorance and trust.

[@twoheadeddatascientist3289]

I am from Albania and I want to say thank you. I love your book New Thinking. You are a great intellectual and content creator. Thank you.

[@sergi7071]

I'm an Italian born in the 90s and my best friend is Albanian, he come to Italy as kid and I've been there plenty of times (Mostly up to Shkodra). I consider Albania my second home and seeing what this was it's pure pain for me. Now Albania is economically growing up very fast, hopefully making normal people a bit more rich rather than a small elite. I always hope the best for our brothers!

[@higherresolution4490]

I'm from Southern California, but was living in Northern Italy near Aviano Air Force Base in 1996 and 97'. Unbelievably, there was no news of what was going on in Albania. Once back in America, needless to say, not a shred of news coverage. The exact same MLM schemes happened in Russia and Romania after the fall of the Berlin Wall. No consequence to white-collar crime. Just look at the plush lifestyle that FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried & his parents enjoy in Palo Alto, California.

[@souvikrc4499]

European news media was likely focused on what was happening in ex-Yugoslavia, and American news media is known for its lackluster foreign coverage.

[@Fyre0]

SBF had a luxury life in the Bahamas where he hoped the law wouldn't touch him.

[@vasiovasio]

Exactly the same situation in Bulgaria, too in the '90s...

[@cisium1184]

_"Once back in America, needless to say, not a shred of news coverage."_ Yes there was. I remember it. Granted, I lived in Boston where there was a relatively high number of Albanian immigrants, but it was on the national news as well.

[@ФеофанЭтополедолжнобытьзаполне]

In Russia dude behind the scheme served time in prison.

[@lfc-europe]

I had no idea about any of this. Pretty crazy it happened so recently. Thanks for sharing.

[@mihabru2354]

Never thought I would see a (sad) piece of my country's history appear in an episode of one of my favorite youtube channels. Thank you!

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

after the collapse of the communist government. everyone in the eastern bloc is taking a drug called free market capitalism. up to an overdose. they drink it until they forget the reason communism existed because of free market without government regulation could be more dangerous because no one will be held responsible for the chaos that results from this overdose

[@jacobkuntflapp]

Bro, you been living under a rock, Albania is a shithole

[@Agent-ie3uv]

I l0v3e albania, wonder why turks and greeks put extra N to the country name of 🇦🇱. I wouldn't put it here because yt will delete it 😴🙄

[@MrVibriocholerae]

​@@Agent-ie3uv im greek and have no idea what u mean

[@officer_friendly_]

Thank God I'm not born albanian, it's honestly shameful being albanian.

[@lvh912]

Thanks again for another great video Dagogo! Being scammed can happen so quickly if you're not aware of it... After I left uni, I have been approached by a tutor/mentor that I held in high esteem. I just started my career and as every self-employed person knows, money/cash flow is a big stress factor at the beginning. I suppose he thought I might fall victim to the pyramid scheme he was involved in, in order to be able to stay afloat financially. Fortunately, I had already been exposed to this subject through your videos among others and I shut him down immediately. It still affects me to this day as I now struggle to fully trust people. All of that to say, be mindful of "too good to be true" propositions, even (and I would argue, especially!) made by people close to you, that you implicitly trust.

[@blatherama]

I was in the US Peace Corps in Albania right as these scams were starting. I warned several students off them. I hope they listened. One of my former colleagues got caught up in them, though.

[@ilirlluka6789]

I am Albanian, 38 years old, I lived through this and what I can say is this: The sad element in all this is not the existence nor even the implementation of the pyramid schemes per se as they are just one of the many faces of corruption (especially in post-communist states) which is in itself a human condition, thus it has always existed in various economic forms and will always exist, what is the most absurd part in all of this is the fact that now after all these years, 26 years, in fact, those who were then in power in the government and gave free rein to the pyramid schemes, and who were then overthrown by the people, are now still in fact in power again, they never left, it has just been a vicious cycle, a closed loop where individuals that yesterday were considered murderers are now still an active part of the system, the change has not been progressive only cyclical. This is the sad reality of post-communist states passing into capitalism but not through a systematic implementation of reform but thrown into it. This happened in Russia, Romania, etc everywhere where Communism existed for more than half a century.

[@ilirlluka6789]

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[@i1bike]

its same everywhere, you just think its only where you live

[@philipwangila244]

I don't blame communism but capitalism. Capitalism if not checked well is subject to exploitation and abuse by a few to steal from others in a more subtle way

[@georgioskanderbeg]

@@i1bikeit's not the same. The closed loop the guy mentioned is the reason why the economy is stagnant. It's been 30 years and despite some infrastructure development, people still struggling to raise a family, migration never ends, population is shrinking and gdp barely increases from year to year... no bro it's not everywhere like this

[@i1bike]

@@georgioskanderbeg it is

[@MrKoNtI1]

I'm from Albania 🇦🇱 thank you so much for the amazing detailed video Cold Fusion TV, big fan of your channel ❤️. This was a devastating event for Albania. I was 8 years old and my sister was 11 when the civil war happened. You could hear every 10 minutes an ak-47 unloading his magazine, seeing tracing bullets up in the sky. I remembered how we hide every day behind the walls of the house not to get killed by random bullets flying everywhere, even peaking on the windows was dangerous for months isolated. Hopefully, the whole world understands the pain and devastation we faced as a country and why persists even to this day.

[@StoutProper]

Did people hide in the bunkers?

[@Cunat121]

@@StoutProper probably the poor or those fighting

[@JelMain]

The Police and Military Armouries had been emptied, but all the blasting off into the air exhausted the ammunition and things became more stable. Much went to Kosovo, where a Muslim resistance to the Serbian Catholic Orthodox ended up with a precedent in War Crimes trials. Serbia is still being encouraged by Russia to believe that it has a historical claim over the rest of the former Yugoslavia, but that's going to get nowhere now a couple of States are now in Europe. In the longer term, one might see this as a continuation of the Balkan issues of c1430, and the original land-holdings of the eastern end of the Holy Roman Empire coming to grips with the Ottoman Turks.

[@fnuppyfnup]

@@JelMain Fortunately , politicians do not always manage to manipulate everyone , I am eternally grateful to the Kosovar Albanians who warned my father's family in kosovo at the onset of ww2, about Skenderberg divisions (albanians allied with Germany in WW2) that were coming in to ethnically cleanse the whole village. There's plenty of evidence of Albanian empire ambitions - see the 'Greater Albania' flag that claims the Presevo Valley in Serbia, Macedonian, Greek and Montenegrian territories as their own. Kosovo is not enough. It keeps popping up at football games and has been publicly endorsed by personalities such as Dua Lipa. No other countries in that region has such dangerous ambitions combined with a largely tribalistic population that blindly follows their leaders. Not to mention was Kosovo has become, a hub of human and drug trafficking.

[@DonkeyRhubarb21]

Having been alive, but youngish when this happened, it's one of the few things I've never been made aware of on the Internet. Thank you for making this. I truly appreciate what you make and your channel.

[@archipiratta]

The sad thing is that those who were tasked with ensuring this would never happen either profited handsomely from the Scheme or just turned a blind eye. 😢

[@fail4lot]

I think that we had same scheme in Serbia too. I was young at the time but I remember my relatives, who worked abroad, talking that they lost all their savings to some banks or coorporations.

[@renalxdo]

I am albanian and I have been watching your video for years and i gotta say i was really surprised seeing this video on your channel. 100% of the facts were on point and explained really well the situation during the years of 1990 - 2000. Truly a devestating time but we have improved a lot and things are so much different now. Thinking back on that time it really sounds crazy and unbeliavable.

[@scottishfold7929]

I'm Italian and I remember the images on the news when I was a child of the landing of 20,000 Albanians in Bari in '91, an impressive and heartbreaking thing, even President Berlusconi (yes I know, he's an asshole) started crying

[@dernamenlose4950]

Did he really cry?

[@scottishfold7929]

@@dernamenlose4950 Surprisingly, yes. You can still find videos online.

[@dernamenlose4950]

@@scottishfold7929 I was searching but didn‘t find a video about it

[@besimsala20]

Grazie

[@legendal2463]

grazie mille per tuo komento. Era molto dificile dopo il comunismo in Albania. La gente aveva perso la speranza

[@DevMoSofi]

Seeing those men and women crying over their loses is heartbreaking.

[@madamebkrt]

I know, it really hurt me.

[@neperqiell3496]

Most of the footage of crying people is actually taken from war in Kosovo

[@Sunshine-lo6vd]

@@neperqiell3496 exactly ! It’s from the war. People fall for shit so fast without doing their research 🤦🏽‍♀️

[@Minimalici0us]

Scammers should get the 💀penalty

[@googleuser4207]

He is misrepresenting footage. This is from serbian atrocities.

[@Tanu.90]

Dagogo you are awsome man, you are one of my favorite youtubers... and now you deal with historic events in Eastern Europe... even better. Greetings from Romania! 🇷🇴

[@amorepsyche808]

My university thesis was about this devastating event of my country…how can these CRIMINALS that robbed an entire nation sleep at night is beyond my comprehension 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@gent9358]

Same thing happened in Russia during the 90s, ours was MMM, they had to arrest the directors of it because the people stormed their office and wanted to tear them apart limb from limb.

[@cc-dtv]

You have no idea how excited I was to see this video, knowing the backstory and seeing who produced it, thank you !!

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

after the collapse of the communist government. everyone in the eastern bloc is taking a drug called free market capitalism. up to an overdose. they drink it until they forget the reason communism existed because of free market without government regulation could be more dangerous because no one will be held responsible for the chaos that results from this overdose

[@VentiVonOsterreich]

I only knew about this moment in Albanian history thanks to your content because it's been overshadowed by the Yugoslav Wars and the Kosovo War Thanks for helping us know about historical moments that weren't mentioned often if at all

[@mind.tutorial]

These events are connected, Albania as an ex communist country was full of arms which were unofficially sold or donated to Kosovo Army

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

after the collapse of the communist government. everyone in the eastern bloc is taking a drug called free market capitalism. up to an overdose. they drink it until they forget the reason communism existed because of free market without government regulation could be more dangerous because no one will be held responsible for the chaos that results from this overdose

[@boris035..4]

@@mind.tutorial Terrorists built terrorists...that's the way :D

[@boris035..4]

@João P K So?

[@mind.tutorial]

@Boris035 .!. You can say what you want , the truth is that Serbia was trying to do an ethnic cleansing

[@gigisilk798]

ColdFusion being unbiased, informative, entertaining on top of soothing, relaxed music and narration is also my guilty form of great ASMR.

[@notmenotme614]

A lot of the footage in this video isn’t even from Albania or anything to do with banking scams. The footage is from the war in Kosovo.

[@KudretAlgan]

My company decided fo invest in Albania for rice cultivation. The government supported in all aspects and hired us the land. We borught lots of machinery, management who knows rice cultivation and hired local manpower for the purpose. Our goal was to produce 5.000 tons of rice for the first year and all was planned and provided accordingly. In the middle of season, most of the workers left the job with all kind of reasons they have created. Almost all of local people around does not have any work to support themselves. People who left the job requested compensation of 10 times their salaries by threatining us with killing as all came with guns. Equipment began to dissappear at nights due to theft. Summary: This journey ended in the first year, ALL of our equipment (rice machinery, tractors, trucks, even our cars were STOLEN except one harvester which we kept in a friend's warehouse. Despite our efforts we only produced 20 (twenty) tons of rice which were taken by local workers as they called "compensation of their efforts". Our total loss was about 2 million dollars. Thank god we returned alive by the help of a few honest Albanian friends.

[@nonebusiness4488]

wow. just wow.

[@nonebusiness4488]

yes, albania was always a tough hood

[@sophiaisabelle027]

It's amazing to see how much information is presented in this. I'd say this is a good analysis overall.

[@joankamberaj]

It's just wikipedia into speech

[@k1dicarus]

@@joankamberaj Wikipedia into speech with good visuals and a nice voice narrating it like a bot still could not. Im glad I stumpled upon this piece of history through his channel. I dont know if I would have done that on wiki some day.

[@jgray-bo5fc]

I've watched a ridiculous amount of your videos over the years. Your videos are visually interesting and informationally rich. Thanks for the content!

[@Clean_Slate]

As a Greek, I know from fellow Albanians that Hoxha is pronounced as Hoja. Just thought it should be mentioned

[@Blue_8800]

Always doubt hojas, they are never good news...

[@duljanleka9383]

All misspellings of Enver Hoxha, are welcomed in Albania 😀.

[@goytabr]

I always think it's a matter of courtesy and respect, when you're talking about foreign countries and will have to say foreign names, to search for the correct pronunciation and at least try to approximate it the best you can. It's so easy these days with the Internet. I'd certainly be unable to do that with Southern African languages like Zulu or Xhosa, with those impossible clicking sounds with the throat that our brains never learned how to do, Caucasian languages like Georgian or Chechen, with those (literally!) dozens of strange (to our ears) consonants, or tonal East Asian languages like Mandarin and Thai, with those subtle tones to which we speakers of Western languages are mostly deaf but make a lot of difference in meaning. But I don't think it would be absolutely impossible to do with any European language, even the difficult non-Indo-European ones like Hungarian or Finnish. They'd just require a few more rehearsals. I think that failing to try at least a heavily accented approximation is rude and inconsiderate with the people from that country.

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

after the collapse of the communist government. everyone in the eastern bloc is taking a drug called free market capitalism. up to an overdose. they drink it until they forget the reason communism existed because of free market without government regulation could be more dangerous because no one will be held responsible for the chaos that results from this overdose

[@greenearth9945]

Are greeks and albanians close culture wise?

[@jamesstuart3346]

Another superb video. Well-produced and highly informative!

[@TQFMTradingStrategies]

Bruh we just watched the 16th largest bank in our own country collapse basically because of its exposure to dog coin scammers. So lots of lessons to learn here people….

[@grcfalcon]

Since you covered our neighbour's story I hope you cover the 1999 Greek Stock Market crash where most of the population lost everything it got. Or the catastrophic Olympic Games of 2004 in athens, when we spent more than we got on infastructure that went to waste after the games.

[@erjontoliqi4228]

1999 Greek stock market crash?? I thought it was in 2008...

[@MrVibriocholerae]

​@@erjontoliqi4228 2008 was greek debt crisis

[@StoutProper]

The Greeks are also good at shooting themselves in the foot. Maybe it’s a Balkan thing.

[@alxx1378]

Had a restaurant on a Greek island and I remember that in 98 we were selling about 500 kilos of lobster pasta and 99 we sold only 70 kilos. We called it down lobster.

[@MeiinUK]

Wow... I never knew this about Greece... so therefore..... it makes sense that..... a lot of Greeks came to the UK and they went to uni here at that time. To stay safe before later going back to equalise things.

[@earthling_parth]

I completely forgot you were on Nebula. I would never have imagined that a whole country's financial system could collapse because of pyramid schemes. This was an eye-opener.

[@nanuixx5620]

There is a really good and interesting book telling all this history of Albania from the eyes of a growing up child/teenager. It's called "Free" by Lea Ypi, who also later emigrated from Albania and is now a Professor at LSE.. I read it when visiting Albania, which was one of the most beautiful countries I've ever visited...

[@Zavial28]

Scam and fraud should be penalised much harder then it is. I hate thieves, if only someone knew how much.

[@yakacm]

We know an Albanian family here in Glasgow, as theirs kids went to school with my daughter, they are a lovely family, nice people.

[@allannhlanhla]

You know it's going to be a good weekend when Cold Fusion uploads on a Friday

[@shimirealty]

Thanks for making the video and educating the World about what happened to us, I left Albania when I was just 13 years old during the civil war in 1997, and the video is entirely accurate. We are making progress since but still lot of work remains to be done.

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

after the collapse of the communist government. everyone in the eastern bloc is taking a drug called free market capitalism. up to an overdose. they drink it until they forget the reason communism existed because of free market without government regulation could be more dangerous because no one will be held responsible for the chaos that results from this overdose

[@JKARMIS1]

I was in the Greek Army when this happened. We were so bored keeping records on explosions and shots at the border

[@rafanadir6958]

​@@JKARMIS1 do you realize how cruel is what you just said? People were dying and you were bored, because you had to keep a record of something...

[@froglifes6829]

Albania did not have a civil war in 1997

[@USAMogle]

​@@froglifes6829 it did though look it up

[@hhKJgf1M8a0rzt8hP]

Thank you for this video, until now I wasn't aware of the struggles people of Albania had to go through.

[@80bbygrl]

I had several Albanian friends here in the United States back in the '90s, and their fathers were just as strict as it sounds like their leader back in their home country was... That's a damn shame. They weren't even allowed to socialize with us Americans outside of school.

[@apeerzada987]

My love and support to the people of Albania

[@USAMogle]

thanks

[@SofijaSofijaSofija]

Didn't know know about this and I'm from a neighbor country close to Albania. Just goes to show how media tries to segregate us by not spreading the news. Love from Serbia 🇷🇸

[@gangulic]

Same here

[@Dhimo758]

Albania and Serbia are not neighbours

[@blagojepetrovic223]

​@@Dhimo758 The guy tries to extend an olive branch and you do this...

[@rodrigoadrianrodriguezaedo4477]

Remember that Serbia considers Kosovo as part of their country, so Serbians consider Albania to be a neighboring country

[@SofijaSofijaSofija]

@@Dhimo758 I also said "close to Albania" so take that as you want. Idk if you are stupid or just trying to be hateful.

[@yaredyoseph2909]

You can only get such refreshing stories communicated simply in THIS CHANNEL. Very hard to find a substitute. Thanks again man.

[@yingle6027]

I feel like everyone gets scammed at least once in their life before they learn the lesson. The trick is don't ever be too greedy and if it sounds too good to be true, it most likely is.

[@kindklan8020]

idk but actually what if it isn't?... there are rare cases where it is actually that good

[@yingle6027]

@@kindklan8020 Sure there are times when you can't believe what you are getting away with but this leads to insatiable greed -I've been there. Greed then becomes the undoing of all your hard work and luck.

[@pyromaniack13]

I grew up playing RuneScape. I can see scams coming from a mile away

[@tristangabrielo]

I know it ain’t as big as many but it hurt enough for me to learn, I was a kid who got a beautiful hat on a MMORPG it didn’t even gave you any special stats just kinda uncommon and beautiful looking, a guy came and swore he would upgrade it, that he already activated something expensive and promised he wouldn’t scam me, the second I gave it to him to upgrade it he just logged off, I was devastated, it was a cheap lesson monetarily speaking but a bitter taste to reality

[@yingle6027]

@@tristangabrielo Haha same thing happened to me on Diablo II when I was a kid, lost my best sword!

[@FTZPLTC]

It's strange that this happened well within my lifetime but I knew nothing about it. Then suddenly in the past week I've had three KZbin videos about it!

[@israbu]

My dad was one of folks that didn’t believe in this. He put in 30000 Lek (~USD$300) and got back double. They would give smaller amounts back quicker to keep the illusion up. Unfortunately, this wasn’t the case for some of our relatives.

[@darkerarts]

This was fascinating. I had no idea what triggered the issues in Albania. Amazing work as always.

[@nishantsingh5385]

You know the situation is grim and desperate when you see those men crying loud on Roads.

[@googleuser4207]

That is from serbian atrocities. He used misleading footage.

[@notmenotme614]

The video footage isn’t even from Albania, it’s from the war in Kosovo

[@WheezyShotta]

Love the historical content mate, honestly didn’t know much about this before watching. Keep up the great work Dagogo : ) 🖤

[@AlbionTarkhan]

In Australia all the scammers seem to be from India and sometimes even from legitimate call centres that do scams on the side. I personally get several calls per week from these call centres and they are repeatedly exposed by online vigilantes because they operate with impunity due to Indian authorities protecting their activities and the Australian government doing absolutely nothing about it. The people they target are older Australians who often have lost their entire life savings.

[@blixten2928]

Not only people from India, believe me. But they are the ones targeted, thank goodness, by those on-line vigilantes (whose work is FASCINATING). It's "who speaks Anglo"-thing, as well as to whom your tech etc. people usually out-source. In Sweden, we have to breed our own particular tribes of scammers, as old people only trust Swedish-speakers and no phone support is out-sourced to India...

[@useralpha9090]

I was last year with my family on holiday in Albania And it's admirable how much progress has been made in just so few years. We had a great time and we will definitely go again❤

[@ΚλαϊντιΑ]

The name of the dictator is not pronounced Hoksa, it is actually pronounced Hoja, and the is pronnounced as the letter "J" in English same way as you would pronounced Jay or Jeremy

[@DarkPa1adin]

Hojya?

[@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368]

It's actually pronounce "Asshat"

[@Skroorsk]

Thank you. Absolutely painful hearing the gross mispronunciation in this video

[@bangerxshane]

@@Skroorsk damn, I feel bad for you Not really.

[@lunchb0x1986]

​@@Skroorsk poor baby.

[@briandstephmoore4910]

Ugh this is heart wrenching. I wanted to shut it off quite afew times but I made it to the end, it's important to see as gross as it is. Kudos to you for showing it sir.

[@HTehnique]

The topic presented in this video was one that was previously unknown to me -- thanks Dagogo, it was an interesting dive into the past.

[@RLelling]

Albania was not in the Soviet Union.

[@HTehnique]

@@RLelling thanks, my mistake - have corrected it now

[@siddharthvishwanath]

13:50 "If you want fraud videos, I've got plenty of those" 😂

[@alb-333]

This destroys Albania, even today we are still suffering the consequences of this event. After stealing the people's money, they opened the weapons warehouses, the people were armed, violence spread everywhere, it was like the gates of hell were opened. This was also the work of the enemy services, we know who made this masquerade. After a year, Kosovo was attacked, and Greece tried to annex the south of Albania, it was Albania's friends who stopped it, our permanent friends. This event left many consequences that we are still suffering today, many young people have died, society was incriminated because they lost hope, the people were left without money, without security, and armed. Albania survived, it is succeeding, today Albania is like a construction site, it is becoming a paradise...the conductor of this masquerade was Nicholas Gage (original name, Nikos Gatzoyiannis) was born in 1939 in Lia, a village in northwestern Greece.he was a highly influential person in American politics. He is involved in Greek,Russian and Serbian fascist chauvinist networks and connected with the Orthodox Church

[@walpoleandworcester]

When I see a Coldfusion upload I drop everything and watch. Cheers!

[@boowiebear]

Such a sad story I had never heard. Thank you. It sounds like they are on a good path now.

[@ΚλαϊντιΑ]

I am one of those people whose parents migrated to Greece because of this catastrophe, Greece provided many opportunities but a lot of challenges, bullying and racism at the same time, It has been many times that I wished this would have never happened and for Albania to be a normal country so my family could live there instead. To this day Albanian immigrants are still treated badly (this began when people started migrating to foreign countries, you saw the state of Albania from the video, it was lawless and a lot of people turned to crime and theft in the foreign countries in order to have a piece of bread to eat, I am not surprised that the citizens of those countries were angry back then, but a lot of time has passed and these crimes are not usual anymore). Corruption is still extremely high and I have no hope of going back there...

[@freespiritable]

It was, it isn't anymore. But Albanians don't like to build much. We want easy paths, already built countries, already built societies. We all want Albania to be better yet no one wants to stay and make it better. Everyone leaving, cowards. Please have the decency of not trash talking my country.

[@tiusernamenabalw]

On behalf of all greeks I am sorry for the racism you faced. Albanians are now an integral and highly productive part of modern Greece. I was surprised when I was in Tirana a few years ago, that is was easier to communicate in greek than in English. I hope Albania is in EU one day.

[@3dcomrade]

​@Zaydan Alfariz difference is that India and China grows. Albania? Not so much India and China 10 years ago are different and better. Albania is stagnant

[@immortalxgr]

There isn't a single case of mass migration in history where racism wasn't an issue. I'm Greek and was already an adult during the influx and have witnessed the suffering, and sometimes, mistreatment of your people. However (and with no intent of rounding the corners) the vast majority of us provided clothing food and shelter back in the day. I certainly did. In fact, the number one problem for Albanian people who became early members of the workforce, was raids and theft from Albanian gangs formed from prison escapees. You have to understand that it's inevitable for any country's people to be worried when their borders collapse and there were certainly many incidents of racism and bullying. There's no denying it. But it is widely accepted that from the list of countries that were migration destinations, Greece was the most easy to blend in. You're right that to this day there are still some hot-headed people who haven't accepted the fact that we are all equal. It's a global problem of humanity though and certainly not one which Greece is characterized for! Be well, stay strong, and ignore the toxic people!

[@seyl717]

​​@@immortalxgr He already said all that in his comment. Greece as a state is very bullish towards Albania and even citizens to this day.

[@busyrand]

ColdFusion fiancial videos are staggeringly solid... My man does not miss...

[@YOQishere]

I am waiting for you to make a video about the Banks ( SVB etc) situation because you explain things so I can understand! Please do it!

[@h3llpro]

Interesting! As a long subscriber of yours I did not expect this! The moment the word 'scam' is used, albanians my age(35 and above) get a slight 'vietnam flash' of that unfortunate event called, in short, "97". There are two critical points. One is, how unprepared for "Capitalism" we were and the second one, most important, is "Besa" meaning 'faith' or 'give you my word'. Well that "Faith" that describes us albanians took an immense amount of damage and we are yet to recover from. We put our trust and faith in something that eventually led us to a catastrophy!

[@NomadAlb]

Ironically there is a loan company called "besa foundation" here in Albania...

[@ardit108]

These events will be forever one of the darkest times for our country. Like always great analysis and content.

[@alcyonae]

It won’t be among the darkest for long if you don’t keep out Iranian-educated Imams

[@sudhindrakopalle7071]

Great content and I never get tired of Dagogo's sublime, perfect voice for narration!

[@vanesslifeygo]

This voice can be used to narrate the most boring history book to make it worthwhile.

[@jadam4036]

Never heard about this but now I know I’m gonna spend the rest of the day watch videos on Albania’s history like… this is actually crazy I need to know more like how did they overcome all this.. truly amazing I’m so intrigued fr

[@mbryson2899]

The depths of greed regardless of consequences to others is disgusting. 😡

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

Okay, I saw the thumbnail and thought it read, "The fall of Alabama", and as that's where I live, I was dying laughing 😂. "Where to start?" was my next thought, lol.

[@MirandaSinistra]

What's happening in Alabama?

[@Goodchennai]

Alabama already fell and dusted...

[@benderbendingrofriguez3300]

Can you make a video about Silicon Valley Bank? It has been on the news after its stock felt 60% yesterday (03/09/2023).

[@ColdFusion]

On it

[@RafaelScapella]

I visited Albania a year ago. The country has one of the lowest purchasing powers in Europe, but I did see improvements being made. Coming from Italy at the time during the pandemic, I felt a lot more free in Albania.

[@invader7191]

On paper our GDP per capita is still slow compared to Western Europe but also the cost of living is much lower here as well. In Italy a regular police officer earns 700 euros per month (in a big city) in Albania they earn 500 per month but the rent in Tirana is 300 euros a month on average for a 1 bedroom, in Rome its $1500 per month. Everything in Italy is at least 3X more expensive than in Albania.

[@invader7191]

There are also a few thousand Italians (mostly pensioners) who live in Albania now.

[@chromebomb]

I spent a month in Albania in the summer of 2021. Absolutely beautiful country and lovely people but you can see the scars from decades of hardship. Shout out to all the Albanians

[@Tzmaker]

Degogo to Albanians in 1997: "Promising returns up to 50% per month, that everyone knows is unrealistic" Crypto Investors in the 2010s: "Hold my beer..."

[@bkrmds]

ColdFusion your game in videos lately is out of this world! Just brilliant!

[@quantumdagger2462]

So you accusing him being an alien 🤨

[@the.randomstuffguy]

Thank you for this video Dagogo!! Unfortunately there is still a lot of corruption and poverty in Albania, no matter which party has ruled since the civil war. I was born in 1996 and luckily my dad took me and my sister in1999 in Greece and had a descent life there.

[@local_authority]

But you only have 2 subs

[@robertraymond348]

@Zaydan Alfariz you need to elaborate more on that

[@Thanksforthefish]

Very interesting and with many parallels to Yugoslavia in the 90s. That you can also investigate. There were two occurrences in Yugoslavia, one by Dafina, who was later allegedly killed by the Yugoslav secret service, and Jezda (Jezdimir Vasiljević).

[@mjaubee9880]

Its so sad, i did not live during this time, but my mom and dad did. They tell me stories how easily you could get shot when the so called civil war started, since everyone was armed and havoc was being wrecked almost everywhere. In Tirana, our capital, there used to be an amazing monument in front of the pyramid buidling (yes an actual pyramid - even though now its being transformed into some contemporary architechture gentrified bullshit), which was a huge bell made of the shells from the bullets used back then, collected by the students and melted to make the bell itself. It used to be so impressive to me as a child. The was of 97' is deeply ingrained in Albania's national consciousness and is one of the biggest events in our country's history. However, what i will never understand is how people still can blindly support Sali Berisha (the president shown in the pictures) when he played a big part in having albanians trust these horrible schemes.

[@mjaubee9880]

This bell is not there anymore, unfortunately i do not know where they put it now, since the pyramid building is being reconstructed. It was called "Kembana e Paqes" (the bell of peace), there are still images of it on google :)

[@Aya-u3e4]

that was really eye opening video thank you channel owner 👍👍👍👍

[@luishernandezblonde]

In Poland, back in 1990s, all the news about the Balkans had been wars in Yugoslavia and its subsequent collapse. Never imagine that from Albania though, a country with widespread corruption and poverty has to endure such a dark past. I know Poland is not perfect and there are many issues with scams in my country, but we are glad to have been able to transcend into a stable democracy.

[@googleuser4207]

Stable? PiS is dragging you back to dark ages.

[@mihailo674]

Just asking, how was the Yugoslavia civil war covered by Polish media? Did it consider views from both sides or was it the conventional CNN echo chamber stuff? I'm really curious about that.

[@luishernandezblonde]

@@mihailo674 Mostly Polish people know and in some way, our media was not exactly balanced. Normal media was more nuanced with the view that Yugoslavia had been seen as somewhat liberal in authoritarian Soviet order, thanked Tito for that. Conservative Catholic media was far more favourable to Croatian narratives. They viewed Serbs with suspicion due to their Orthodox belief and Serbia's love for Russia. Bosniaks were almost non-existent due to their Muslim faith, even though we knew the Srebrenica.

[@mihailo674]

@@luishernandezblonde Well the Polish support for the catholic Croats is basically implied, but what was the general public's perception of stuff like "Opertion Storm", the events at the world-famous town of Srebrenica, Kosovo insurgency etc. Could you be a little more detailed? Please feel free to be honest, this is nothing personal. I'm just observing, i simply want to see the real state of things. And also, were Polish relations with Russia this bad even back then, when the two states were together in a military pact? By "this bad" i dont mean this year, i mean like 2020. Officialy the polish government condemned the NATO "peacekeeping missions" together with Russia and thats what confuses me.

[@luishernandezblonde]

@@mihailo674 Since I was born after the end of Yugoslav Wars so my knowledge is passed through my grandparents, who were sympathisers of the Yugoslav nation. They just did not come on term of Yugoslav disintegration, I remember. While that's entirely from grandparent observation, I could see some level of respect for Yugoslavia then in Poland. Most Poles of that era knew that Tito was different from Stalin and appreciated him for his ability to win the WW2 in the Balkans without Soviet troops entering. There was disapproval against NATO military operation then, even though Polish public was pretty polarised and divided. Poland only joined NATO in 1999 after agreed to let NATO to use airbases in the country, a decision remains controversial to some today. About further past, yes. Tsarist Russia occupied Poland for 200 years. Then the Soviets occupied Poland for 40 years next. Almost Poles are anti-Russian, that's the fact. It was a long, blood feud. Hard to clean out for just a day.

[@NikoBee90]

Brilliant content as always. It does make me wonder though why Albanians were so much more vulnerable to these schemes as opposed to other former Yugoslavian countries. We had a rush of con artists following the collapse of Yugoslavia and the general feeling amongst all of us was that of extreme scepticism (Croatian/Serbian) Former middle class or poor. That scepticism was difficult to manage when moving out west and trying to navigate a financial environment that offered services like savings/investment accounts and credit cards but it always made me ponder the majority of the Albanian people I met and their willingness to jump into questionable investment opportunities or shady deals.

[@NomadAlb]

What were Tito's policies on migration at communism era? Because under Hoxha you couldn't even tell anyone that you like to go to another country since this warranted jail time followed by isolation of you relatives and all sorts of tortures. That means that almost all of all graduates were illiterate on liberal economy, piramid schemes and their risks and other economic jargon that capitalism has. Also with the destruction of the heavy industry ( which although barely functional, rudimentary and with obsolete tech, was the backbone of Albania's economy) , the head of the family struggled to keep the family from even starving, so even a glimpse of hope that it could succeed, such as a very shady investment was worth trying. Many people understood the implication but thought that they could get their profit before the collapse. My father was one of them

[@NikoBee90]

@@NomadAlb Well put and quite insightful, thank you for that

[@OyVeey]

​@@NomadAlb Tito was a lot less of an isolationist, and his own version of communism still incorporated markets to some degree. The Yugoslavian population was a lot less isolated from the global economy.

[@mihailo674]

@Afrim Hoxa Tito had a different view on socialism compared to USSR. Even though Yugoslavia was communist with all companies being state-owned, it had a market economy, kinda like China today. Migration wasnt prohibited, in fact, instead of picturing the US as our sworn enemy in his ideology, Tito put effort to make positive relations with both the east and west. There is a saying "he was such a capable diplomat that he convinced Americans to lend him money so he can buy Russian weapons". Foreign investments helped a lot in developing heavy industry. The Đerdap power plant was a joint project with Romania. When the Greek military dictatorship fell in the 70's and we were allowed to visit there, it was shocking for us to see how a NATO country could be less wealthy than us, having watched western movies and thinking that money grows on trees over there. If there's something more you want to know in detail feel free to ask.

[@imarioiv]

Let’s go! Always a great morning when ColdFusion uploads!

[@laaaliiiluuu]

The combined greed of smart, psychopathic business people and desperate, stupid investors can destroy entire nations.

[@diegodoumecq5144]

The fundamental thing to remember here is that the money didn't dissappear, it was just distributed very unequally

[@notmenotme614]

Money never disappears, so everytime your Government say a project is costing them $1 billion. Who is the money going to.

[@thedarkenigma3834]

@@notmenotme614 Into politician's pockets.

[@vasiovasio]

Exactly the same situation in Bulgaria too in the '90s...

[@prowlermadmax2]

Love you're show, keep up the great work.

[@TheJoe278]

Can you eventually do a video on what is happening with Silicon Valley Bank?

[@ardip.6930]

SVB bank collapsed in America this week..Now, imagine that...but for most banks in the country

[@AST4EVER]

these MLM schemes were rampant in my India too, also, they were during the 1990s, market liberalisation took place right at that time. Market policy change and Fraud were happening all around the world at the same time. Why..?? How..?? Peculiar, isn't it....

[@costiqueR]

This was happening in entire Eastern Europe, but in Albania was the worst as the government was absolutely useless. In principle, scammers are always linked to governing. At least was in East Europe.

[@alb-333]

in Albania they also open weapons warehouses, this was the most terrifying, children 10 and 12 years old played shooting at people, at night the houses turned off the lights so that you could make a shooting table

[@takudzwamupanesure3222]

Damn I resonate with parts of the the situations the people of Albania faced. Corruption and misgovernance has destroyed my country. To everyone facing the same, lets fight till we get it right💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿

[@TheAkdzyn]

What does your name mean?

[@invader7191]

Thank you, which country are you from?

[@ticijevish]

Good video! I was surprized by your choice of topic. Before the likes of Dua Lipa and Rita Ora, the world seemed not to know Albanians even existed. Just one thing you got wrong, in Albanian, the XH is pronounced just like the letter J is in English. It was honestly confusing when I heard you say Hocks-huh, instead of Hojja or Hoggia. I literally had to look at the text on the screen to confirm you were talking about Enver. Keep up the great work!

[@Nerathul1]

I am so confused how Coldfusion talks about a Pyramid scheme... and then proceed to talk about a Ponzi scheme instead...

[@benderbendingrofriguez3300]

When you make the video on SVVB, probably it will be a long one, taking into consideration that after it collapse, other regional bank have collapse such as Signature bank, and who knows. The stocks from Bank of Hawaii have been halted, as well as First Republic bank from San Francisco.