TIRANA, Albania — In a historical twist, the home of Albania’s late communist dictator Enver Hoxha is hosting international artists fascinated by the long-ruling leader’s library, ...

As Hoxha once put it in a New Year's address to ... basement swimming pool and an escape tunnel leading to an underground bunker, designed to offer shelter in the event of an attack - an unlikely ...

The dictator Enver Hoxha was paranoid and lived in constant fear that Albania could be attacked by capitalist countries. So he ordered the construction of 200,000 bunkers all over the country ...

The bunker-building campaign ramped up intensity between 1975 and Hoxha’s death in 1985, consuming some 80% of the army’s resources. While some sources put the total of Albania’s concrete and metal ...

Enver Hoxha ruled Albania with an iron fist for nearly ... He became known as "Kolonel Bunker." ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — In a historical twist, the home of Albania’s late communist dictator Enver Hoxha is hosting international artists fascinated by the long-ruling leader’s library, ...