Yes really pain and anguish what we Albanians suffered under the most cruel regime. Albania was shamefully POOR, but so shamefully cruel and criminal for over 45 years under hoxha's regime. Now Albania continues to be poor, a mismanaged country with a government that lies to its own people, with government ministers being directly linked with criminal gangs and enriching themselves from taxes and other illegal means...

@@hks4133 speak for yourself

Kot motren ne goj ta paça q.çare me lene te iki ty mor kokerr muti e kopil bunkerash. Albania under Enver hoxha regime was so brutal only 10%of the people had good lifes and they where the regimes henchmen who killed and brutalized the people of Albania for 47 years.They ruined the beautiful country of Albania.

@@lewis885 cdo njeri ka te drejte te shprehe mendimin e vet. Perse ofendon kaq rende?

We had nothing

Democracy is chaos per definition. Some people find order and perfectionism to be the best way - but people are not perfect, therefore it seems that democracy fits better to the human society. Order you can find under hoxha's regime, Hitler, Stalin, Franco, and so on...I will not exchange the liberty as an individual in a chaotic society for the "safety" of the "orderly" dictatorship. I am surprised to see people as you who are fans of communist dictatorship - that is a shame. Only people will low intellectual faculty could ask to live under dictatorship with their will; most of the people are forced to live in dictatorship, but some people like you, prefer to live in dictatorship, ...

Shume i vertete pershkrimi juaj per Shqiperine.Prej 30 vitesh ne kete vend eshte abuzuar sepse s'ka shkuar prona tek i zoti dhe se fundmi me qeverine e rradhes eshte kethyer Byroja politike e kohes se Enver Hoxhes ne pushtet.Mjer ai vend.

Sot e 32 vjet, vendi është qeverisur e qeveriset nga ish komunistë e kopilët e tyre. Qellimisht vendi rri në amulli, vidhet, korrupsion, drogë, për ti bërë vend teorisë "ishim më mirë kur ishim më keq"! U devijua gjithshka po nga laviret bolshevike.

mi fanno sempre ridere questi commenti ignoranti, "dalla padella alla brace": ma come ti permetti? Ti taglieresti una mano per non vivere nel tempo di enver

@@pspspspssspspps ti në fakt e dien çfarë don me than .....

It's 'Those Were The Days' by Eugene Raskin, which is itself an English language adaptation of the Russian song 'By The Long Road' - 'Дорогой длинною' - by Boris Fomin and Konstantin Podrevsky. It's a really good song imo. This is the English version performed by Mary Hopkin: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h9akjZulvsClm3k.html&ab_channel=GPITRAL2MusicforLearningEnglishwithsubtitles And the original Russian version is also great: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h8mflaml1tG0j5s.html&ab_channel=Jana1889

Nevertheless life without exposure to the outside world would have been much more meaningful

I love you

First of all Albania doesn't have Capitalism, but a hybrid system. Secondly in the 90s Albania was making a switch to Capitalism. The time you mention Albania had anarchy and corruption. It had nothing to do with Capitalism, but it had to do with the Government of Sali Berisha. Thirdly, Albania is still poor due to the harsh years of Communism, that impoverished the people and the public sectors of the country. In the 90s as i mentioned we had anything but Democracy or Capitalism. They were years of mass immigration, unrests and anarchy. It wasn't until the new millennia that Albania started functioning again! So it's not 30 years but 20 years in which the country has undergone massive changes ( something you can only know and understand if you are from Albania and have a strong memory as well as material to compare). Communism and the 90s anarchy did a lot of damage to Albania, that has been trying to recover from.

Yes --- I prefer to be EQUALLY POOR - that's what communism is all about - without mentioning killings and imprisonments of opposition. Actually there was no opposition in Albania between 1945-1990 - hoxha killed as a delusional lunatic - he did not spare his own commies.. well done comrade enver! 1997 pyramids were put up by hoxha's secret policemen who were left out of government jobs from democratic government... I lost some money to the schemes - not because I was greedy, but I put some money just to shut up the mouths of my relatives who wouldn't stop telling me why we don't do like others, like our neighbours etc... I laughed when that money got lost - it was just like playing poker - you win or lose - Albanians got so greedy - they thought they outsmarted everyone - then communists and others blamed Berisha for the pyramids - Berisha's only fault was not confiscating the money and closing the pyramid schemes - but it was an election year and socialists were threatening Berisha over his move to close pyramid schemes--- it was all a shame - WE were poor before hoxha got to power - he killed and suppressed Albanians like no other - his disciples now rule Albania with the same motives, but different style -Albania is still one of the poorest countries - EU should not let Albania join EU until economically Albania reaches comparable level with other neighboring EU countries like Croatia or Slovenia; As for the political and juridical level - I doubt Albania will ever get up to par with other European counterparts. We are as lawless as we can be, and this will continue in perpetuity.

@Vorraboms That's right, well said.

Funny how kids who have never had to suffer through communism seem to love it so much

i love that kind of idiotic nostalgia

Comrade Do u believe that thing was better with communism ?

You forgot to say, No food, no liberties.... no freedom of thoughts, and so on. Communist party and politbureau were the prostitution and the killers.

@@comparecars_org yes they did!!!

@@comparecars_org what did you write? Your comment is deleted now. I would like to answer.

Exactly the point i bring up every single time people speak of the 'tyranny' of having the state actually have our backs for once...

Capitalism was never supposed to be easy - communism on the other hand was like a forced labor camp. My parents worked all their life just to feed the family. We did not gain nothing from the old regime, nor did we get back our land or live stock that was confiscated by the communists when the new government came to power in 1992. Everybody worked hard and our lives are much better now - those family members living in Albania still barely can make the month's end, but most of us left the country, our hopes for a better life betrayed by the mismanagement from post-communist governments and corrupt politicians. A big F* them all from top government to the unimportant city mayor...

@@whatamalike yes - the state had your back so it could break it any time - NO THANKS - I do not want the state to have my back - I want ministers to do their job and not steal people's money. Albania is so small, it only need five or six ministers, less government is the solution, not more government. The more people work for the government the poorer the country will get. Nobody needs Rama's "fatherly" advices... he can play the pots and pans he talks about on his homilies.. Albanian people should stop justifying hoxha's regime - what's going on in today's Albania is hoxha's doing... his disciples are ruling the country, what better rule do you expect!

@@hks4133 Your attitude of "the state taketh, and the state shalt taketh away" is typical of capitalists who genuinely think no state/local authority help empowers everybody. I can assure you, it doesn't...AT ALL! This notion that "Oh so you're paid a crap wage, struggling to pay rent and bills and not feeding yourself properly? Oh but don't worry, you're FREE!" is when people like begin to question what is the point in 'liberty' if you cannot properly exercise it beyond moaning about your predicament with little to no solution? This is ultimately the main fault of modern hyper capitalism. We have also seen what happens in Albania when the state collapses (primarily due to outside interference might I add); it descends into blood feuding and sectarian violence!

@@whatamalike Yes, I'd rather be free albeit poor, than be poor and without any freedom. I am not sure if you are an Albanian or not - but as someone who lived communism I know what a monster it is - there is nothing that can replace what the regime took from us. My parents worked their entire life just to sustain us during the commies in power - we kids were taught ideology since first grade how to love "mother party" and how only the party and comrade Loulou could provide for us.. As a little kid I could tell that what they taught us did not make sense - teachers lecturing ideology they could never understand let alone being able to explain to us; and I wasn't sure why grown-ups were teaching us lies for public consumption while saying other things when at home and under voice. As for Albanians descending to chaos, that is a natural thing for us - we were ruled by an un-natural power, ottoman empire for half a millennium, we fought them, we hated them, we sabotaged them as much as we could - and in the end we gave up - we gave it all up - unlike our neighbours, when we gave up, we gave up all - in a way we became them, embraced their religion, went backward in cultural development, became suspicious to anyone and anything. When we got the chance to join Europe in 1913 we "bit" the Great Power's hand (Prince Wilhelm of Wied), the only chance for us to part ways with ottomans. Later on we embraced like no one else communism ideology and practice - like Mao did later with his chinese cultural revolution, we killed our intellectual elite, and prosperous bourgeoisie, to be ruled by not-haves, so we can look up at them and all become like them - all not-haves under a lunatic in command... George Orwell had written our history in 1944, but we Albanians thought we are writing communist history for the very first time - different from everyone - we only copied Stalin's torture methods, but the rest we invented Albanian-style. --- Happy New Year!

Yep, the truth hurts - Albania was the poorest country during hoxha's regime... Albania is still one of the poorest in Europe, probably better only compared with Belarus (a staunch communist last stronghold)... what is more shameful, is that Hoxha's disciples are in government and Albanian parliament... those who killed people for thinking differently - are still ruling Albanian people today - what can I say? are we the most stupid people in Europe apart from being the poorest... probably. Somebody said that people have the government they deserve - maybe we Albanians do not deserve better!

Albania actually had one of the first uni of Europe en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Dyrrhachium

@@mn4ed "The university was established around 1380, and then transferred to Zadar in 1396, amid the mounting Turkish threats in South-eastern Europe, thereby becoming the University of Zadar" SO yeah, by the time Hoxha came to power there wasn't a university in the country.

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@@pspspspssspspps e verteta dhemb?

@@arsenjaho8069 that's not the truth at all, being employed in shitty work means nothing

Who was a moderate social democratic leader who failed to provide a socialist alternative. Now the Labour Party is run by pro-capitalist leaders again. Corbyn failed because he was not revolutionary and not willing to fight those Labour officials who kept on supporting austerity and pro-capitalist politics!

There is no bigger shame than seeing how poor Albania was and truthfully, how poor it still is today... Yes, it is better today, but corrupt politicians and the most mob-connected government in Albanian's history keep electing itself unchallenged by the opposition (which the socialists pushed aside like their fathers did during 1945-1990). Socialism is all for taking the goods and profit from those who make it, accumulate it for themselves and create a dependent low income class so perpetuate their governing cycle by proclaiming to help the poor - which socialist create day by day. Socialism, as the history in S

@@hks4133 I thinks the problem with Albania after 1990 was that the country didn't have a proper opposition movement and de-communisation, so all corrupted and let's be honest brutal bastards from Sigurimi should be removed from power!

@@martincarbosin3431 yes agree - but tell that to the speaker of the parliament - he was the interior minister that oversaw the cross-over from communist dictatorship to pluralism... and as such he ordered the killing of anti-communist demonstrators... what is worse is that those killings happened while Albania was opening up, and all killings were targeted by government snipers... the guy now meets Merkel and the likes from EU and "discusses" how Albania can become more democratic (!) shame on us. The guy who is in (absolute) power in government, premier, foreign minister, head of socialist party...(one person) used to draw portraits of the commie dictator and his father used to build statues of the "almighty" commie leader...

@@hks4133 This is sad, agree, but changes need to be made by normal people/citizens of Albania, another sad thing is that those mother fuckers will never see any kind of trial to be accused of crime made in Hoxha time. This is I think a problem with Albanians mentality, bevause many of those bastards are already dead or living as a rich pensioners.