The genius of Enver Hoxha.
Let's be honest, there has never been a reason to nuke Albania. Even at the height of the cold war. So what's with all of the nuclear bunkers? Some may think that Enver Hoxha was just a paranoid idiot. Incorrect. Enver Hoxha simply knew how to use fear as a weapon.
It is incredibly easy to control people when you have them afraid. Under the rule of Enver Hoxha, citizens were not only afraid of the government, but also of the outside world.
No library could hold all the books, magazines, newspapers and other publications which attack Marxism-Leninism, no one can calculate or even imagine the quantity and extent of the anti-communist propaganda of imperialism.
Enver Hoxha used his propaganda network to put together an 'us vs them' mentality. And Albania's infamous nuclear bunkers were built for the purpose of propaganda.
Here's another quote from Enver Hoxha:
Even if we have to go without bread, we Albanians do not violate principles. We do not betray Marxism"
It is incredibly easy to control people when you have them afraid. Under the rule of Enver Hoxha, citizens were not only afraid of the government, but also of the outside world.
No library could hold all the books, magazines, newspapers and other publications which attack Marxism-Leninism, no one can calculate or even imagine the quantity and extent of the anti-communist propaganda of imperialism.
Enver Hoxha used his propaganda network to put together an 'us vs them' mentality. And Albania's infamous nuclear bunkers were built for the purpose of propaganda.
Here's another quote from Enver Hoxha:
Even if we have to go without bread, we Albanians do not violate principles. We do not betray Marxism"
Comments (5)
A common enough tool. Consider the West's decades of bombastic Cold War rhetoric and syphoning of funding out of the public sphere into military spending and it's apogee, the Military Industrial Complex. All in the name of freedom.
Military spending is good, even if our schools suffer. I would rather be uneducated and free.
Quoting Scarecow
How dare you use my own words against me.
Yet the system collapsed. After Hoxha died, his successors accepted the reality around them, had even multiparty systems. And then communism simply gave way.
In North Korea it didn't. There the permanent war against the outside world goes on. And the family continues on and on.
Why?
Because the fear of the US Superpower, with which there is only an armstice, can be quite easily portrayed as an existential threat. And if things get too cozy, some clash with South Korea, and the threat is real. It's not just fiction. It is so real, that you can easily make the hermit kingdom to exist well into this Century.
So, wouldn't it be better then to talk about the genius of Kim Il Sung?
Kim with Enver in 1956: