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[Anonymous No.4676152]

>Albania managed to give the middle finger to the revisionist USSR and China and resist being overthrown
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Albanian_split
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Albanian_split

[Anonymous No.4676159]

>there are poor capitalist countries, and poor communist countries
Albania managed to be poor on communism and on capitalism.

[Anonymous No.4676255]

>>4676159
"The virulent revival of blood feuds, which a hapless central authority can do little to remedy, requires thousands of school-age children to stay at home. The economic disaster that is Albania has little funding left for education. The population of Tirana grew from approximately 300,000 in 1991 to almost one million in 2003, but not one new high school was built during that twelve-year period. The mass exodus of the best and the brightest — in the first ten years following the collapse of Communism possibly 20% of the population fled what they considered a hopeless situation — has resulted in an unprecedented brain-drain. Albanian education is in crisis with no quick fix in sight. Women's rights, another of Hoxha's achievements, have been severely set back with the explosion of human trafficking which has seen thousands of Albanian girls and women transported abroad for prostitution and thousands more kept home from school by their parents for fear of such forcible abduction... with patriotic intellectuals openly suggesting that the only way out of the morass may be for Albania to become a ward of the United Nations or an Italian condominium." Bernd J. Fischer (ed). Balkan Strongmen. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press. 2007. pp. 266-267.

[Anonymous No.4676283]

fucking albanians

[Anonymous No.4676499]

that's... odd

[Anonymous No.4676553]

when all else fails..