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This year, for the first time since World War II, Enver Hoxha's Stalinist regime has decided to admit-in groups of 30-West German tourists. The total cost for three weeks, including air fare, food and accommodations, is only $140. There is a slight catch, though: to help Hoxha's fledgling "Action Through Concentrated Blows" program, which is much like China's "Great Leap Forward," tourists who sign up for this government-approved package deal must spend four hours a day laboring in Albania's picturesque farm fields. Germans are ordinarily compulsive tourists...
...countries, tiny Albania has stood steadfastly behind China in its dispute with the Soviet Union. Now it appears that there are no lengths to which the little Balkan dictatorship will not go to emulate its big brother to the east. Because of industrial and agricultural shortfalls. Communist Party Boss Enver Hoxha has decreed "a new and big fire for a chain of revolutionary undertakings in all corners of the fatherland" -in short, a "Great Leap Forward...
Propaganda Tableau. Albania is using its own version of Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution to galvanize its lethargic citizens, and portraits of Mao and Party Boss Enver Hoxha hang side by side in shops and offices. Wall posters criticize laggard factory managers and party officials, women's high heels and short dresses, and everyone who dodges early-morning gymnasium classes. Like a propaganda tableau out of Red China, party members and intellectuals gather in the fields against a majestic background of snow-capped mountains, reading Hoxha's thoughts to the toiling farmers and spurring them...
...20th anniversary of the "liberation" of Albania from Axis occupation. It was wasted effort. Albania flexed its puny muscles with an 85-minute parade through Tirana's normally trafficless streets, and the military display included a few rockets, probably donated by Red China. Albanian Party Boss Enver Hoxha ranted his way through a three-hour speech hailing the removal of Khrushchev but blasting the new Soviet leadership for its failure to rehabilitate Stalin, who, said Hoxha, was a great Marxist-Leninist even though "he may have committed some small errors." Hoxha sneered that the new Soviet leaders "would like...
...countries broke diplomatic ties in 1961. The buildings had been under the care of three Soviet "technicians," and the seizure followed an unsuccessful campaign to pressure the caretakers out by cutting off their water and electricity. For Russia it was injury added to insults. Albania's Red Boss Enver Hoxha once called Nikita Khrushchev a "revisionist" to his face, and reportedly ordered Soviet submarines out of Albania's naval base. In Moscow, Russian officialdom squealed like stuck imperialists, complained that the Albanians "trample underfoot the elementary standards of international law." What's more, said Moscow, Albanians...