This book reveals the birth of a dictatorship and its survival in a small country. Unlike larger nations, where a regime's control struggles to reach the most remote corners of society, in Albania, the communist leader Enver Hoxha established a ruthless police system that penetrated every aspect of public and private life for 45 years, suppressing even the smallest expressions of freedom without hesitation . This reconstruction is based on original documents from Albania's communist era, and observes the deep scars left by communist repression on modern Albanian society, which the author, the italian journalist Carlo Bollino, has witnessed firsthand for over 30 years. This compelling read provokes reflection on the fragile boundary between freedom and subjugation.
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