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Hoxha’s underground airwing

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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.

End of the World is Still Scheduled for This Week

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Four days to go until the Mayan Doomsday – and there’s a rush on for bomb-proof survival bunkers (complete with leather sofas and plasma screen TVs)

If you’re seriously concerned about the world ending on Friday, then this could be just the ticket. Ron Hubbard has built a luxurious underground bomb-proof shelter in Montebello, California, with a leather sofa, plasma TV and wooden flooring – just in case the Mayans’ predictions come true.

‘I’ll spend three days underground in the shelter just to be safe. If you have a shelter you might as well go in it.  I don’t think anything will happen but you never know.’

The Mayan civilisation’s Long Count calendar which began 5,125 years ago in 3113 B.C. ends on December 21, 2012 – sparking fears among a small group of people that a major catastrophe could happen.

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