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Long Reads: Lea Ypi on the Enigmas of Modern Albania

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The History of the Modern State in the Balkans

There is no other example in europe, or elsewhere for that matter, of a communist party having taken power so soon after it was established. And this was in a country where the red army never played any direct role in the combat during our war two. How did that come to happen, both during and immediately after the war? The history of these early years, ninetee n twenetys, 19 30, of the consolidation of this first opinion modern state are one of a clash between the old landowners and property owners connected to the ottoman empire. But there isn't really an industrial interstructure. There aren't really any roads. Majority of it is illiterate

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