Hoxha’s underground airwing

Albania never stood a chance.

After the truly bizarre leadership of King Zog I (who started as prime minister in 1922 and by 1928 crowned himself) came Marxist strongman Enver Hoxha who was a Balkan emperor in all but title until he died in the 1980s. The cult of personality cultivated across numerous generations by Zog-Hoxa, LLC kept Albania frozen in time through the 1990s when the spell finally broke.

Which brings up to Cold War-era underground hardened concrete tunnels at Kuçovë Air Base, where some 80 MiGs, Yaks, and Chicom clones have been growing mold since 2000. The whole lot is apparently up for sale. As-is/where-is.

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