Albania was known as the "hermit kingdom" during the cold war. How'd it go from being the based North Korea of Europe to a cultureless western puppet in the span of a few decades?
>>2162499
>Italy
>Warsaw Pact
>US military base
>>2162499
Fuck, I thought that Albania was an African country.
> muh bunkers
>>2162499
>How'd it go from being the based North Korea of Europe to a cultureless western puppet in the span of a few decades?
it was pretty much the north korea of europe, so when the berlin wall fell it collapsed into a culturless western puppet in the span of decades
at least the urban parts did, the mountains are basicaly tribal and realy the albanian mafia rules it
>>2162530
But why didn't it retain its mystic in the same way Belarus and the central Asian republics did? IE have non-ideological (or semi-eurasianist) strongmen as leaders?
>>2162511
You're not far from the truth
>>2162578
Because they are extremely tribal, especially the northern ones, the southern ones are more chill.
>it's a the entire Albanian economy coalesces into one large Ponzi scheme and collapses overnight in 1997 episode
>>2162499
because no one likes Albania.
>>2162499
serb alert
>>2163393
Albanians don't realize how low their country has fallen?
>>2162499
Shiptari should be removed from my cunt!
I met loads of Albanians in France this summer when the football was on, they're pretty chill.
>>2162651
The best kind of episode
Albania was a misstake
Albanija is baddest countri because of it fill of albanoen pičkas. It is not even real they are from caucasuc peoples not even european!
Also it fail because no support of russia or chine.
KOCOBO JE SRBIJA!