First Starting as People's Republic of Albania then after the Sino-Albanian Split finally Called Itself the People's Socialist Republic of Albania, with its First Leader Enver Hoxha who Believe in an Orthodox variant of Marxist-Leninism with Anti-Revisionism as a main doctrine
Albania would eventually fall to Revisionism and Capitalist Encirclement in 1991
Here are some of Hoxha's works
And Here is a Documentary of Socialist Albania by the American Party of Labor (Hoxhaist party)
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Also Hoxha and Molotov were a Ship
After the fall of Communism (not Soviets, Albania and the USSR had a rocky relationship), Pyramid schemes and Mafia gained huge influence in the economy
GDP fell enormously during the 90s leading to mass emigration and it's still one of the poorest nations in Europe
The current influence of Mafia on both Albania and diaspora is huge unfortunately
I had a student who was from Albania, this was during my years as a lib. Looking back I have no idea what his politics were, but he did have a tattoo of that double-headed bird (I assume the symbol predates the communist period). He was probably born in the mid 90s.
One class took the course particularly hard and a group of students did everything they could to try and get me in trouble; he was in that group.
That is the extent of my experience with Albania and Albanian expats