Western Attempts to Overthrow Stalinist Albania - Cold War DOCUMENTARY

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[@astronomicvulpine9836]

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[@chrissanchez2998]

I enjoy your history on KZbin channel how about doing something about Laos history

[@beepboop204]

i remember back when i was addicted and living in a trap house, i told myself i have to at least make it to the Summit Series episode. 4 years later, im in a much better place, but im still waiting for that Summit Series episode

[@brokenbridge6316]

Hey have you ever considered talking about "Operation Solo?"

[@diegoyanesholtz212]

Can you do the Brazilian coup d'estat of 1964?

[@mr.nobodyknows6447]

As an Albanian seeing all these interventions by the Western "mercenaries" explains the stubbornness of Enver when it came to open relations with the West. Further more the split with the Soviets gave Enver even more paranoia. Stuck between an unfriendly East and unfriendly West lead the cause for a heavy "bunkerization" . This of course weakened the economy and worsened the living standard.

[@violetagardenia]

This is a key point indeed. In fact this is what liberals never acknowledge: that geopolitics is a crucial factor in internal economics. Also “personalizing” history is grave historiographic mistake: “mao did this, stalin controlled everything, enver was mad, etc etc” No man rules alone and since classic central planned economies had deficiencies in the distribution of info “communist dictators” could hardly “c0ntr0l Ev3ryth1ng”. As you said his policies were driven by a need of impeding yugoslavian, soviet and nato sabotage

[@nvelsen1975]

@@violetagardenia How do you say "I am extremely dumb and have negative knowledge" without saying so? By using the term 'liberal' as a pejorative term. Good job Sergei, or Bubba, whichever hole you crawled from.

[@warrior6803]

Now they can visit nuclear bunkers that keept them at bay

[@_antike_cdo_gje489]

​@@violetagardenia not true l am a Albanian this is not true ....l will have you a good questions? Why Enver Hoxha bunkering Albania?

[@HK-pp9ig]

@@_antike_cdo_gje489 Because hoxha had no clue how much the military machine had progressed from the WW1 or WW2... hoxha thought that tthe West would be sending parachutists with guns.... a US bomber in 1999 when bombing Serbian army took aim at one Albanian bunker in the north and just nailed it down in earth... so the occupant would be dead anyway... whatever; hoxha was a hypocrite; he behaved as a friendly grandpa on Albanian media and in meeting with "people", but privately he ordered all his comrades killed behind their backs... one by one, even torturing some of them, in order to leave behind someone who would ensure his line will continue after hoxha's death, and safeguard hoxha's widow and children... who by the way became capitalist entrepreneurs after the fall of communist dictatorship of their father.

[@CONTACTLIGHTTOMMY]

True story... One night during the mid 70's, I was listening to my shortwave radio and came across a station which was broadcasting incredibly vitriolic propaganda against the West. My first thought was Pol Pots Cambodia, but when the hour came and they did their station identification, it was Radio Tirana.

[@HellqueenRoz]

Hoxha's regimes propaganda against the USA and other Western countries was actually so extreme and outspoken that their one-time Soviet allies told them to tone it down because it made them look bad.

[@agentepolaris4914]

​@@HellqueenRoz is really that so?

[@777Lxxx]

@@agentepolaris4914Albania broke ties with USSR because the Russians weren't Stalinist enough...

[@michaelhorn6029]

I remember those shortwave stations. Like an early internet.

[@CONTACTLIGHTTOMMY]

It was really bizarre. I'm pretty sure the radio announcer was about to pop an aneurysm. As I recall, he was really railing against Greece. Claiming that Greece was plotting to attack and similar nonsense. I was like...whoa, relax, calm down fella. Can any Albanians out there corroborate that?

[@ekmalsukarno2302]

The Cold War, can you please make a video on Françafrique, which is basically France's Monroe Doctrine approach towards Africa. I want you to make a video on this topic, since the concept of Françafrique dates back to the Cold War era.

[@baronessvondengler]

Co-sign on this!

[@caseclosed9342]

They should make a video on this.

[@assim2213]

França é um país de maioria afroárabe Muçulmana

[@Jacob.123]

I second this!

[@chrisuminski6037]

Yes please

[@A_10_PaAng_111]

About time someone covers Albania in depth.

[@shiverarts8284]

The talker looks like maozedong or kim jung un

[@tng2057]

So much similarities between N Korea and Albania during those days. Both heavily backed by a certain big Asian country.

[@rhedosaurus2251]

And in the end, both countries winded up turning on China.

[@cuber5003]

​@@rhedosaurus2251 you'd think they learn too... diplomacy with Chinese characteristics

[@rainbowraver666]

yeah as it turns out, when the alternative is a world power that is determined to overthrow you and crush you, you're better off allying with someone else, go figure

[@Peacemaker475]

​@@rhedosaurus2251 and Greece

[@Burrito69killer]

mongolia B)

[@teachermike1947]

LOVE your channel and so happy you made this! I spent 3 months in Albania and really love the country and it's history, particularly the the Hoxha period..but as you know there is relatively precious little English language content around...

[@tommo9176]

Great job guys!

[@KonstanzArrens]

An informative brief overview of a little known piece of Cold War history. Good work.

[@soul8938]

Makes one think how hoxha has always been depicted as „unjustly“ paranoid….

[@eaglempire_mapper]

Enver ATHEIST Hoxha-in Albanian means Imam. But he was just an atheist psychopath, nothing more!

[@bricksbrickman]

Fun fact: the footage used in the section at 11:10 is from the WW2 infantry training video "how to get killed in one easy lesson". It's funny because I've only watched it once a couple years ago but the scene shown still stuck with me.

[@EdMcF1]

Around the end of 1984/early 1985 I was in Portugal and had a MW radio. I started twiddling to tune into an English-language station and I got an Albanian radio broadcast in English. Every item of news seemed to be stated in terms denouncing the West, and then the Soviets and the Chinese as ideological deviants. I thought that I was probably the only person in the whole Iberian peninsula tuning in.

[@vipeton.8927]

Basically Albania vs the world.

[@the_ratmeister]

Another petition for a Françafrique video

[@boxslave]

Came here to make a King Zog comment. My advisor in University met him in NYC, later on Zog got his jacket caught in the subway door. Also as far as I know Zog was the only head of state to actually fire a weapon on a attempted assassin.

[@yeetfifa8190]

He also emptied the entire gold reserve when he fled the country and abandoned his own country which he previously turned from a young fledgling republic in to a semi despotic monarchy

[@metigame1450]

And probably the best sounding name ever for a king.

[@MrGentilushi]

He fired at his own assassin and after shooting him he treated all the the people at the bar with free drinks ...lol

[@royale7620]

​@@yeetfifa8190thats garbage communist propaganda lol

[@konst80hum]

Very informative. Thank you!

[@treverblanco]

Great episode!

[@averagegamer6912]

Video published: 3 min ago Comment: 5 hours ago

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Wonderful historical coverage about Albania 🇦🇱 during the Cold War 🥶

[@v4ltonn]

Very good video. keep it up !

[@hheyop]

I was looking for this content on internet before, great to see it

[@alandesouzacruz5124]

Interesting Topic great Episode

[@stevoplex]

I've always imagined Communist Albania as the North Korea of Europe. Fascinating video and channel. I'm a political refugee from Communist Czechoslovakia.

[@jakesuper6447]

North Korea is capitalist and revisionist Juche is an anti marxist ideology

[@vipeton.8927]

Even 30 years after dissolution?

[@stevoplex]

@@vipeton.8927 No. I'm remembering from 30 years ago. It's different now.

[@vipeton.8927]

@@stevoplex oh, OK. I was living in Slovakia last year. Nice place, people are very friendly. Really liked Nitra and Komarno. And president of Slovakia seems to be very likeable person.

[@brokenbridge6316]

Glad to hear about a subject that most don't talk about

[@soul8938]

Wow stellar pronunciation of albanian names, very well done 👍🏻

[@carbonfibercrypto2919]

why do i get the feeling that this host wouldve been one of the most loyal comrades

[@jjr1728]

The cheap suit and commie type artwork on his wall might be a clue

[@hairy_putin]

No wonder the paranoid King of Bunkers was so jumpy.

[@FlavourlessQuark]

3:47 I also hate it when a burp comes up in the wrong moment lol

[@Numba003]

Is there a total count somewhere of just how many coups were attempted by both sides during the Cold War? It has to be a ridiculous number. Thank you for another informative episode. God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)

[@KonradAdenauerJr]

Thank you for presenting this topic, which is one of Cold War's most obscure. Sigurimi had been trained by Soviet security and intel operatives, and what you describe the Sigurimi doing was Soviet tradecraft.

[@donaldhysa4836]

I cannot believe how effective this Sigurimi was. Why can't we apply that effectivness in other areas now in Albania?

[@777Lxxx]

1 in 2 people were spies back than that's why

[@jakesuper6447]

Because capitalism The proletariat of albania needs to restore socialism

[@donaldhysa4836]

@@jakesuper6447 But we had bread lines in socialism

[@blerimdl]

Because brothers snitched on each other. And you had spies everywhere .

[@renatodeoliveira1915]

@@donaldhysa4836 well at least you get food in capitalism you just starve without bread lines

Very intersting

[@donnyboon2896]

@8:00 You show the "Man of Three Armies" Larry Thorne. Finland, SS, and US Army! (Lauri Törni)

[@tinkelembergcristianluca908]

Was looking if someone else saw this

[@arnbo88]

Is that Larry Thorne @ 8:07?

[@vladilenkalatschev4915]

Listening to this I am beginning to understand that Hoxha’s paranoia wasn’t without reasons

[@johnleka5347]

My grandfather cousin was the first to parachute in the south of albania in 1949 for the operation "fontana".

[@samwill7259]

Not sure what the plan was after they DID overthrow Hoxha. The Soviets had already made it clear they were never going to let any of their satallite states freely change governments for any reason

[@whocares427]

How do they invade. Through the Adriatic? And therefore through the Bosphorus as well?

[@cuber5003]

@@whocares427 they did have small bases in Egypt in the 60s but by then Hoxha had disavowed them already

[@johnmeskill2015]

In the 1960s, I think Hoxha was afraid of being overthrown by the Soviet Union.

[@enverhoxha545]

They fail everytime

[@killer52gaming82]

anyone notice the top left portrait at 15:33?

[@AnatoliDvoyachki]

Can you make a video about Bulgaria?

[@GamersAdventureWorldGAWYT]

You simply can never overthrow glorious Albania. Edit: Guys I’m being sarcastic, it’s related to the Albania memes.

[@nashbridges-cu6dy]

Why glorious?

[@loscaballerostemplarios13]

@@nashbridges-cu6dymaybe he meant the glorious socialist Albania, the transformation we had as a country in less than 30 years is gigantic. We were transformed from a feudal society with primitive technology to an advanced and sophisticated industry, we would produce tractors, ships, TVs, different weapons, the first country to completely finish the electrification, 3rd in the world for chrome production, 2nd in Europe for oil, all these things achieved during the socialist regime under the leadership of Enver Hoxha, also our army was very strong, so yeah it was glorious but not it’s only a shadow of its past.

[@carbonfibercrypto2919]

nothing you've done over there is sophisticated

[@nashbridges-cu6dy]

@@loscaballerostemplarios13 can you make a simple car like Yugo?

[@loscaballerostemplarios13]

@@nashbridges-cu6dy Yes.🗿

[@enverhoxha545]

Finally he talk about me

[@michaelhorn6029]

Hold tge phone! Is that video of Stalin with Mao on one side and Kruschev on the other side? That's a lot of history right there.

[@iskandartaib]

If you are into travel blogs (in this context I recommend Bald and Bankrupt), one of the more interesting features of Albania is the sheer number of bunkers in the country. They're everywhere, in cities, in small villages, in back gardens.. everything from one man affairs to city block sized labyrinths. Now I can begin to see why they were so paranoid.

[@agentepolaris4914]

I love Mr. Bald's videos, I hope he goes back to gravel through the former USSR some day

[@iskandartaib]

A couple bits of Russian I picked up from his videos.. "I understand", "Gotcha", "Righto" = Ponyoponyoponyo and "Thank you" = 'spossible. 😁😁

[@toobalkain]

bunkers, no?

[@EdMcF1]

There are quite a few bunkers in England, e.g. hexagonal pill-boxes covering beaches, or land that could be used for landing aircraft or paratroopers.

[@yumallah]

@@iskandartaib *Ponyal *Spasibo

[@Pr1ckles]

Anyone been to Albania? I'm thinking of going there this year... I'm from the UK by the way.

[@MH-jg6vk]

yes, a wonderful place indeed. It is like Greece with only 10% of the cost !

[@A_10_PaAng_111]

Yes. No comment 🙄.

[@Peacemaker475]

​@@MH-jg6vk who said that Albania is a wonderful place? Huh?

[@Peacemaker475]

I think I'll suggest you go to Sweden.

[@MH-jg6vk]

@@Peacemaker475 everyone that’s been there for touristic purposes…

[@noejaun2540]

Stalinist? My boy Enver Hoxha didn't build a million bunkers and die strangling revisionists with his bare hands to go down as merely a Stalinist.

[@TolaTrucking]

Had these missions succeeded I probably wouldn't be where I'm at

[@forthrightgambitia1032]

There is an early Adam Curtis documentatory on one of these attempts here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2nLlqKqhsetrJo

[@CARL_093]

true on intro

[@Tuta25Tuta5]

to talk about Enver, you need a deep analysis of the time. Today, fortunately, Albania is experiencing an economic boom thanks to the industry that is developing at a fast pace, very soon factories will be built that will be the envy of the world, people will receive rewards good, 3-4 thousand euros per month without taxes, the oil found during Enver's time is being taken by the Shell oil company and Albania is getting ready to be fed with a spoonful of gold. The Africans have understood this, and through the Italian Prime Minister Maloni and the Prime Minister Edi Rama, they have made an agreement to come from Italy to Albania, since many Albanians have emigrated around the world, and there was no one to use these golden spoons. The apartments have a price like in Manhattan. This is the happiness and well-being that socialism could not give us Albanians, but thanks to democracy, it gives it to Africans. Only one worry is, don't come too many refugees, and there are not enough spoons in Albania!!🤣🤣🤣

[@michaellynes3540]

Skip to 2:43

[@SocialismForAll]

Reducing political clashes during the establishment of a modern nation-state following a major anti-fascist war to "karma" is absurd. As far as the "anti-communist exiles," they are fascists, so just call them that.

[@e99g]

Kim Il Sung actually visited a couple of times Albania

[@jovanmandic1228]

Yugoslavia helped CIA and albanian fascists against Hoxha. As a Yugoslav im sorry that my country took part in this imperialist mission, eternal glory to comrade Hoxha ✊

[@Rake3577]

And then the US broke up and destroyed Yoguslavia, it’s not called Divide and Conquer for no reason

[@FxalTodo.]

A ekziston ende yugosllavia. ? Nuk e dija, të zgjohem kam rënë në një muzgu të përjetshëm.

[@lagjescuni5482]

@@Rake3577 Yougoslavia was destroyed by Milosevic's gang and the dissolution of yugoslavia started in the 80s

[@cehaem2]

@@lagjescuni5482 It wasn't Milosevic that split away from Yugoslavia.,...

[@peterdinklage-jy4dl]

2:47

[@costatv3298]

when sigurimi was stronger than CIA, MI6 and all the others. enver knows everything, even if someone had tooth inflammation

[@Seouldrift7]

Operation Pico (1977) Operation Urgent Fury (1983)

[@Pavlos_Charalambous]

Fun fact, Enver Hoxha was more of a Stalinist than Stalin himself 😉

[@aureliogj7966]

Fun for who? My parents lived under his regime and “fun” was never an epithet they used to describe it.

[@Pavlos_Charalambous]

​@@aureliogj7966 I used it sarcastically As the opposite of " fun"

[@ahmetzogu3289]

Stalin was a deluded criminal. Hoxha was a humanist .

[@jakesuper6447]

​@Aurelio Gj Maybe they shouldn't have been capitalists lol? They probably deserved it Albania has blood feuds and mass unemployment and is a slave to international capital

[@connorconnor7536]

​@@aureliogj7966my parents too, communists took everything from my family and send them to a village for work, they worked 16 hours a day, and they had nothing, i cant believe there is people in albania and in the world who are communists, theu dont know shit about communism and how bad is it

[@bishopmayberry8762]

Filby a real Albania 🇦🇱 hero

[@elatirones]

i'm proud to be Albanian

[@Mitche23]

Kim Philby was a communist spy, that was a mayor intelligence failure

[@OTDMilitaryHistory]

Was this revenge for Sparrow infiltrating through the Simpsons?

[@TheColdWarTV]

Sparrow, real name Adil Hoxha.

[@OTDMilitaryHistory]

@@TheColdWarTV Yes it was!

[@donaldhysa4836]

The Sparrow the greatest secret agent in albanian history :D

[@dans9463]

I paid for no advertising

[@bendafyddgillard]

disappointed about seeing you shill for "Masterworks". I know The Cold War got to get paid, son, but art "investment" is gross. Fascinating topic today though. Had to lol when it turned out all those dirty tricks actually backfired.

[@michaellynes3540]

Albania during the Cold War was Europe’s North Korea.

[@Tmb1112]

You know the title says “attempt” but I seem to recall that Albania leaves the Warsaw Pact by 1968. Seems whatever was done ended up pretty well.

[@aleksaradojicic8114]

They left WP, but stay communist country until end, with there ally being China instead of USSR.

[@obsidianjane4413]

Only because you don't know the context behind it. It had nothing to do with Western meddling, but was disagreements in ideology. Hoxha was an authoritarian Stalinist. He did not agree with the "liberalization" of Khrushchev and conflicts within the international communist block that he was "allowing" to happen, the Sino-Soviet split, and the invasion of Czechoslovakia. The Albanians realized that the USSR was just as "Imperialist" as the West and betrayed Marxism.

[@BXx-ug8gu]

Reason why hoxha became to much stalinist is because they wanted him dead , soo enver find an excuse to divorce with soviets

[@ahmetzogu3289]

@@obsidianjane4413 That was political rhetoric. The real reason was economics. Albania wasn't going to let a superpower like the USSR bleed it dry. Albania became the official mouthpiece for sugar daddy China in the UN.

[@StealthEagle9]

Sigurimi only from its name was dope

[@Johnnycdrums]

Kim Philby was a triple agent working for the British Empire. London could not allow the "American Colonies" to be the undisputed super power. Britain needed to be needed, and as such, they created the scenario which created them to be so..

[@zico739]

And now Albania is part of NATO.

[@Peacemaker475]

Because they're idiots

[@soul8938]

Decades of complete isolationism and the communists government turning into a hoxha cult ultimately left Albania no other choice after hoxhas death

[@AxelPoliti]

What a shame! We had North Korea in front of us Italian: barely a word for the suffering of Albanian people.

[@hanzup4117]

Did the American and British government's attitude toward Albania change much after Albania aligned with China?

[@truekapo3968]

I dont think they cared about albania till the fall of the wall to say the least

[@josemourinho9235]

@@truekapo3968they cared because Albania was strategic place because was the only country in 1963 in Warschau Pact that was not landlocked in South Europe…

[@waitaminute2015]

I don't think China was considered a threat at that time.

[@travis8895]

Can any Albanians give me their opinion on this? I know thay generally, people there like the US and don't like communism. I wonder how this topic is viewed there

[@andro9009]

I am a albania and people still love the communist party of Albania.

[@andro9009]

@@blackeagle7947 I hate communist party of Albania 🤬🤬.

[@ahmetzogu3289]

Albanians are multi skilled entrepreneurs, and as such they go by the motto: you pay we stay. It doesn't matter who is in power, Albanians were born to resist and disobey. It's in their DNA.

[@donaldhysa4836]

I dont like communism but I wish our current albanian government was at least 1% as efficient as Sigurimi was back then

[@albundy1767]

@@dingo4359very accurate statement. 🫡👍

[@MadJackChurchill1312]

Morons: “Enver was sooooo paranoid!” Western powers:

[@d20d29]

The CIA spending millions of Dollars on accidentially strengthening communism in Albania is my favourite plot twist here.

[@KOSOVA-IS-Albania]

I am not saying enver hoxha was perfect but If enver hoxha wasn’t alive Albania would been invaded by Greece and Yugoslavia and Greece wanted to take south Albania and Yugoslavia wanted north Albania.

[@vladilenkalatschev4915]

Without Hoxha Albania wouldn’t exist as an independent country

[@alanstrong55]

Albania was likely as oppressive as Bulgaria. Glad communism eventually fell there.

[@andin3720]

Way more oppressive.

[@ahmetzogu3289]

Albanians aren't oppressive they are stubborn and aggressive. Work around that and you will be fine.

[@ricardog.n3562]

Albania "Stalinist" Hoxaists around the world "Are we clowns to you 🤡🤡 ?" Stalinism is like saying that there is Kin Jo Unizmo, when in fact it is just a continuation of Juche, same thing with Stalin, he only continued Marxism-Leninism, that was Stalin's line, from the murder of Uberia that would be the extension of Marxism-Leninism, right-wing reformists take power, and the USSR is dissolved in 40 years.

[@nopasaran191]

I support(ed) some “Communist” states but Albania was fucking insane

[@goransvraka3171]

Did the West also try to overthrow Tito and Yugoslavia?

[@senadmarovic3530]

Apparently hoxha killed 35 thousand civilians and imprisoned a houndred thousand more

[@GreaterAlbania1]

Not true 6,000 executed 17,000 imprisoned

[@babayaga6376]

Oh well, that makes it so much better....Fyi, I really dont believe you. I know what the commies did in my country.

[@dolcefarniente________86]

Belligerents Communist Albania vs  United States  United Kingdom Supported by:  Yugoslavia  KEVA (Northern Epirus Organization)[1]  NATO:  Greece  Italy  West Germany[2][3

[@michaelcutler5538]

Zog don't caare

[@craigrmeyer]

Excuse me what? (@2:50) British supplies and air support for the communist takeover of Albania? What?

[@Scere]

WW2.

[@Pavlos_Charalambous]

They did the same with Greek communist during ww2 supplies and Cash That's why you see many of them wearing British battle dress uniforms

[@andin3720]

They were fighting the Germans. It made sense.

[@kelvinkoopman9386]

Albania was never anything that resembled a satellite state of the ussr

[@johndavis8669]

King Zog the bum in exile who was hated by exiles. Zog whose house was falling down in exile

[@soul8938]

Yeah he wasn’t popular at all, he just wanted a way back into power

[@oskareriksson2202]

My grandfather, veteran of Regia marina, submariner in ww2, volunteer before the war at 16, graduated to the submarine school of pola (now Croatia I guess) wounded, and decorated, and pow in India (his sub was scuttled after a heavy battle against an hunter killer group, submarine Torricelli, perim strait and Indian ocean, 1940, the hunter killer group was composed by the karthoum,, the indo, and other small asw escort ships), later partecipate in some of these operations on board a minesweeper, in late 40 early 50, against Albania and against Jugoslavia too during the Trieste crisis, I heard some story about that. My dad, his son, told me some of these stories, grandpa told that one night in Adriatic, the radar was broken, and there was heavy fog, from the mist an American escort ship maybe a destroyer came out, and an officer in perfect Italian sad "we're going straight in the mouth of the commies, let's go back guys", this American ship wasn't navigating with them, it was a casual encounter because the Americans was probably conducting also operations that night 😂 BTW, my wife is Albanian. Ckemi to al the Albanians here! And sorry if I wrote very bad it 😂 I now only to pronounce Albanian, speak it but I cannot write

[@petebondurant58]

The West was far too soft during the Cold War.

[@videonofan]

They still won it

[@petebondurant58]

@@videonofan We don't seem to be winning the peace though.

[@JenniferinIllinois]

Wait, you mean an attempt by the west to topple a communist leader failed? 🤣

[@Slavov_Ukraini]

The best way to ruin a stalinist country:leave it to the stalinists!

[@jakesuper6447]

Nope lol Albania and ussr had fastest economic growth in the world

[@jakesuper6447]

The victory of communism is inevitable

[@connorconnor7536]

​@@jakesuper6447ah yes albania under hoxha had great economy, getting just 1 kilo cheese per month, 1 kilo meat per month, and 1 kilo sugar per month, wtf u talking about?

[@toobalkain]

Albania was very close to merger with China, to this day most older Albanians are fluent in Mandarin and cook chop sueys and what not, what a country that would have been, Chinese industriousness and Albanian, hm, Albanian, what are Albanians known for, I mean good things?

[@cehaem2]

Chop Suey isn't even a Chinese dish....

[@aalldldakekjs8981]

Albanians have freed and created the modern greek state. Albanians created the modern state of egypt. Albanians created Viagra and created the First flyable vehicle. Albanians we're known AS sone of the greatetst Military Minds their Hero being called shield and sword of Europe. Albanians have respektive occupiations in the country they live in. Now let me ASK you what has Europe done for the albanians that was good? Why die they Split ethnic albanians Land in cameria, illirida, dardania and parts of Montenegro? Why are they continuing to Talk Bad about the oldest people in Europe that fought with Alexander the great? Why do they discrimate about the ones that Led the Roman Empire? What ist Europe really good known for or should i say what ist your slavic Immigranten known for except for Mass murders and betraying Europe and sing with the ottomans?

[@terrygerhart1485]

Your melded sponsors video is disappointing. Time to unsubscribe and Not Recommend Channel from my list. All the best.

[@soul8938]

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[@belejSLO]

I love this channel because it moves away from communist crimes and always talks about "western" forces, total tankie/putinist rhetoric. It's a brilliant propaganda and exercise in relativization of democracy.

[@Orthodox1821]

I have the honnor to know a Greek man from North Epirus (stolen Greek land in today Albania's territory) who was prisoned and tortured by Enver Hoxha. He told me that Hoxha was a true evil communist, he had made Albania's economy crap and he was executioning many Orthodox Christians and other humans. Never again.

[@rainbowraver666]

lmaoooo "true evil communist" if you think hoxia is representative of communism as an ideology, you've been lied to by right wing propaganda

[@jonizymberi6787]

Northern Epirus, you mean Laberia. Greeks in Albania are an extremely small minority. Today only a few old people in handful of villages along the border identify as Greek and they are dying out. Plus if Hoxha tortured that man as you claim, he was probably a Greek fascist. And given what Greeks did to Albanians in Chameria, Bulgarians in Macedonia etc. Greeks should be thankful we let them live on our territory without expelling them all. Like you did to all of your minorities.

[@manicallydepressedclown8064]

Lmao im greek and let me say hoxha did nothing wrong

[@Orthodox1821]

@@manicallydepressedclown8064 ofcourse, communists say that.

[@sleepy0]

@@manicallydepressedclown8064 based. viva KKE

[@brandonyarvin2551]

Kosovo is Serbia

[@ardianzelaj2536]

Kosova esht dhe ka qen Shqipri..

[@josemourinho9235]

Many things about Enver Hoxha are not so true!My mother’s family was Greek and in 1961 in Albania came Kruchov in our Village and he touched an apple I think in one tree and after he left the Apple was the only rotten apple my Grandma said!Greetings from Sarande and Delvine❤

[@user-ts1fg4lq8w]

@josemourinho9235 What exactly wasn't true about Enver Hoxha in this video? And how did Greek minority live under Enver Hoxha's rule?

[@josemourinho9235]

@@user-ts1fg4lq8w many extremeres from Greek minority in Albania that are in Gold Dawn party and in MAVI say that they were under the worst dictatorship!That isn’t true they had schools in Greek,newspapers and their rights like all Albanians…(but not in some areas like Himare!)

[@kevkevin8177]

Albania : 1960 : 1000 tanks Russia : 2022 : 300 tanks

[@albanesetirana827]

ku i gjete kto shifra i pe ne enderr? rusia ne 2022 300 tanke🤣😂

[@kevkevin8177]

@@albanesetirana827 qe sulmoi ukrainen

[@kevkevin8177]

@@albanesetirana827 ca i ben i shiten per skrap me von

[@albanesetirana827]

@@kevkevin8177 shoku rusia nuk do ta humbasi luften ne ukrain krimeja do mbetet ruse

[@thebutcher6449]

​@@albanesetirana827vetem ukrahina pati ne fillim te luftes ma shum se 3000 tanke kurse rusi imagjinoje vete sa i ka fabrikat e tankeve ai😂😂😂

[@broadminded7774]

Well, all things considered Enver Hoxha doesn't appear to have been as paranoid as he's portrayed!

[@pierpaolodeiulis7783]

Henver had always reason

[@georgestamatakis697]

The one country that no one gave a sh@t about in Yalta.

[@arturahmeti486]

Yes, but seems that greeks don't think the same way.

[@ardianzelaj2536]

i vetmi rast kur ne shqiptaret ju shpetuam grabitqareve qe vendosnin per fatin ton..

[@ardjanliburni564]

Respect to all albanian nationalist and anticommunist fighters fallen for the freedom of Albania against the red plague

[@imgonnagogetthepapersgetth8347]

I'd watch but I get distracted by the guys kissing picture. I don't care if it is sarcasm or not, I don't want to see it.