Hoxha

Historical sidebar: Aficionados of dictatorship will recall Hoxha is the guy who pulled a pistol from his desk drawer one day during a meeting with a political rival and shot the guy dead on the spot.

Archive 2006-10-01 Ed Hollett 2006

What was Margaret 'Hoxha' Hodge thinking of when she started talking up the BNP in her neck of the woods?

BNP Set to Become Official Opposition on Barking Council Says Poll 2006

The Russians were not best pleased at the situation but probably thought that even a committed fanatic such as Hoxha was too daft to be worth bothering with.

Army Rumour Service 2009

The Russians were not best pleased at the situation but probably thought that even a committed fanatic such as Hoxha was too daft to be worth bothering with.

Army Rumour Service 2009

Another local, nameschecked here as "Enver, the Hoxha boy", ended up running the country for four decades until his death in 1985.

July Books 19) Verdigris, by Paul Magrs nwhyte 2009

Who needs Hoxha when we have Cameron, Sarkozy and morale-booster-in-chief Angela Merkel?

Hugh Muir's diary 2012

There are reportedly over 750,000 abandoned concrete bunkers scattered throughout Albania, remnants of Communist dictator Enver Hoxha and his policies of paranoid xenophobia.

Daniel Flahiff | Inhabitat 2009

The youngest of the London production team doubles up on Sunday evenings as disc jockey and lets young Albanians break away from thoughts of Chairman Mao and Secretary Hoxha and deviate to the neo-colonialist outbursts of Lennon and McCartney.

From the archive, 11 January 1967: Albania on the blink 2012

Prince Charles, and the entire population of Albania, where for years under the totalitarian regime of Enver Hoxha his were the only western films approved.

Norman Wisdom, last survivor of the music halls, dies aged 95 Maev Kennedy 2010

And in Communist Albania, where his were the only western films shown under the regime of Enver Hoxha, he was given freedom of the city of Tirana and had an orphanage named after his cinematic alter ego, Norman Pitkin.

Wisdom's longevity was incredible. He even made Barry Cryer seem young Brian Logan 2010