A country once called the "North Korea of Europe" transformed their communist past by repurposing bunkers into things like ...
the Republic of Albania in Southeast Europe, more than 750,000 pillboxes were built between the 1960s and 1980s, and some still remain today. Land of the Giant Mushrooms: Albania's 750,000 Cold ...
33, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE: NATO AND TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE (2009), pp. 21-25 (5 pages) Albania announced its intention to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) ...
On an exploratory stroll through Tirana, I passed several bunkers. The dictator Enver Hoxha was paranoid and lived in constant fear that Albania could be attacked by capitalist countries.
Maria Margaronis explores the debris of Albania's past —the prisons, concrete bunkers and secret police headquarters - as the country attempts to deal with its troubled history.
Colonel Muro Neto was the man Hoxha charged with constructing the bunkers throughout the country which ostensibly protected Albania from its enemies both without and within. He became known as ...
Maria Margaronis explores the debris of Albania's past —the prisons, concrete bunkers and secret police headquarters - as the country attempts to deal with its troubled history.