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'''Enver Hoxha''' (October 16, 1908 – April 11, 1985) was the [[Stalinism|Stalinist]] dictator of [[Albania]] from 1944 to his death in 1985.
 
'''Enver Hoxha''' (October 16, 1908 – April 11, 1985) was the [[Stalinism|Stalinist]] dictator of [[Albania]] from 1944 to his death in 1985.
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Despite being little-known outside of Albania itself, he is considered one of the strictest and most authoritarian [[Eastern Bloc]] rulers of the [[Cold War]] era. Many in Albania claim that under Hoxha's leadership, the country endured the worst form of [[communism]].<ref>[https://www.iwm.at/event/enver-hoxha-biography-of-a-balkan-tyrant Enver Hoxha: Biography of a Balkan Tyrant]</ref> During Hoxha's oppressive 41 year-long rule, an estimated 6,000 people were executed and 100,000 people were imprisoned in [[Gulag]]-style [[concentration camps]].<ref>[https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20191101-albania-a-legacy-of-dictatorship Albania: A legacy of dictatorship]</ref> In 1967, he banned all religions from Albania.
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Despite being little-known outside of Albania itself, he is considered one of the strictest and most authoritarian [[Eastern Bloc]] rulers of the [[Cold War]] era. Many in Albania claim that under Hoxha's leadership, the country endured the worst form of [[communism]].<ref>[https://www.iwm.at/event/enver-hoxha-biography-of-a-balkan-tyrant Enver Hoxha: Biography of a Balkan Tyrant]</ref> During Hoxha's oppressive 41 year-long rule, an estimated 6,000 people were executed and 100,000 people were imprisoned in [[Gulag]]-style [[concentration camps]].<ref>[https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20191101-albania-a-legacy-of-dictatorship Albania: A legacy of dictatorship]</ref> Enver Hoxha was known for his policy of extreme [[isolationism]], severing ties with other communist states such as [[Yugoslavia]] in 1948, the [[Soviet Union]] in 1961 after [[Destalinization]] and finally [[China]], Hoxha having viewed the post-Mao reforms as "[[Revisionism|revisionist]]". in the 1970s In 1967, he banned all religions from Albania.
    
==Biography==
 
==Biography==
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