Enver Hoxha

Former First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania, Prime Minister of Albania

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Lived 1908–1985, aged 77
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    1908–1985
    Aged 77
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Updated 2026-08-25

He sealed an entire country. For four decades Enver Hoxha ruled Albania as one of the world's most isolated and repressive states, banning travel, outlawing religion, and breaking with every communist power that wouldn't match his rigid orthodoxy.

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Born in Gjirokastër in 1908, Hoxha unified Albania's fractured communist cells after the Italian invasion and became First Secretary at 34 in March 1943. Less than two years after liberation he abolished the monarchy and assumed control of the country, a position he held until his death in 1985. By the 1960s he had launched a program of state atheism, persecuting Muslims and Christians alike, and imposed totalitarian governance that imprisoned, executed, or exiled thousands — landowners, peasants resisting collectivization, clan leaders, party members suspected of disloyalty. His government ou…

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Enver Hoxha
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In order to continuously strengthen the defence of our country, it is necessary that we keep the military preparedness of all structures at a high level and perfect it day by day.
"Albania is Forging Ahead Confidently and Unafraid", speech to a meeting of electors in Tirana (8 November 1978)
Enver Hoxha
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The sacrifices of our people were very great.
Enver Hoxha, Selected Works, 1941–1948, vol. I (Tirana: 8 Nëntori Publishing House, 1974, 599-600)
Enver Hoxha
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Let us look facts straight in the eye. World imperialism headed by its aggressive detachment, U.S.
Reject the Revisionist Theses of the XX Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Anti-Marxist Stand of Krushchev's
Enver Hoxha
saidundated
Some one may pose the question: will China win her rights over the United States of America, by possessing and dropping the bomb?
Reject the Revisionist Theses of the XX Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Anti-Marxist Stand of Krushchev's
Enver Hoxha
saidundated
The Soviet leaders accused Comrade Stalin of allegedly interfering in other parties, of imposing the views of the Bolshevik Party upon others.
Reject the Revisionist Theses of the XX Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Anti-Marxist Stand of Krushchev's
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