It asks Albania’s government to “make every effort with the government of Greece to abolish the law of war (Law 2636/40), and the legal consequences that come from this law”.

This country’s Cold War paranoia left it riddled with bunkers. Now they’re coming back to life By Justin Calderón, CNN 9 minute read Updated 7:04 AM EST, Mon November 11, 2024 ...

Up to 750,000 military bunkers once dotted Albania, a Balkan country in southeast Europe of just 11,100 square miles. They were put there by communist dictator Enver Hoxha, who ruled for 40 years ...

After the war, Albania’s Jewish population quickly dropped back to around 300 as foreign Jews left. In 1991 — as soon as the communist regime collapsed — nearly the entire community fled en ...

Photographer Robert Hackman has created a photo book that documents the many bunkers that were built in Albania between 1975 and 1989 amid fears of the Cold War. Estimated to number up to 500,000 ...

Over 750,000 bunkers were built under the direction of communist dictator Enver Hoxha, who ruled Albania as one of the most isolationist Stalinists from the end of World War II until his death in ...

Hoxha ordered the first of the fortifications built in the early 1970s, reputedly because he saw the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia as a rehearsal for an attack on Albania.