artan wrote:^^
Hoxha was a Yugoslav puppet and the sole reason he gained power was because he bent over to the Yugoslavs. The Yugoslavs(with the help of the Soviets) created the communist party in Albania and chose Hoxha as their leader. Hoxha betrayed the Balli Kombetar after Hoxha gave them their word that they'll cease fire among eachother and fight for "Greater Albania". Of course the Yugoslavs(especially the Serbs) didn't like this and forced Hoxha to backstab the Bali Kombetar or else they'll withdraw their support for Hoxha. Then of course Hoxha seceded any support for the Albanian lands in Kosova, Macedonia and Cameria so he can keep his little banana state where he'd be a mini-god. He then brainwashed the people to believe in Marxism-Leninism some political ideological BS. Albanians in Albania went starving and lived in some prison state worshiping Karl Marx and Joseph Stalin. Albanians in the Yugo were genocided, deported and treated like third class citizens. Albanians in Cameria were completely wiped off the map.
I'm on a rant here lol. Hoxha's threats were for pure propaganda purposes to control the people. How exactly was he gonna invade Yugoslavia and Greece with their WW2 ammunition and soldiers who probably went starving?
Nowhere is his speeches did Hoxha threaten to invade either Yugoslavia or Greece. He was only threatening retaliation if they ever tried to mess with Albania's national sovereignty, which he knew very well that the Serbs and Greeks would try if given the chance.
Not sure where you got your history lessons from but Balli Kombetar were a bunch of fascist and nazi collaborators that never lifted a finger against the occupiers. It's easy to throw mud at the commies now after they devastated the country with their lunatic economic policy but they were the only resistance force against the occupation in WWII. How many divisions did Balli field against the Nazis? How many Ballists died fighting the Nazis? A big fucking zero.
And this whole notion of Hoxha being a Yugoslav puppet is laughable. The Yugo puppet in Albania was Koci Xoxe (origin either Vlach or Macedonian Orthodox) who was executed by Hoxha in 1949. We broke off ties with Tito's Yugoslavia very soon after WWII and did not normalize relations until very recently. Gotta love this revisionist history.
Hoxha was a Machiavellian bastard who gained absolute power through sheer ruthlessness and physical elimination of direct threat to his power. He had the balls to go to Moscow and break off relations with Russia at the gathering of all communist parties where the great Sino-Soviet split took place. He eliminated the pro-Soviet faction and kicked the Soviets out of Albania. He was nobody's puppet.
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