Albanian’s golden age
Long Live Marxism, Leninism and Maoism !!! english.pobediteli.ru www.rwor.org www.cpgb-ml.org handsoffchina.org krasnoe.tv http www.pcc.cu www.partisan-news.blogspot.com http www.revolutionarycommunist.org www.eirigi.org http www.kommunistiskapartiet.org http ★☭ A Total Wreck– Thanks to Free Enterprise In its socialist days, Albania’s people had been relatively poor–but their lives had improved tremendously because of the revolution. Together they had built a modern industry out of the old feudal society while facing the constant hostility, military threats, and economic embargoes of surrounding capitalist countries. And they had been proud of their self-reliance and their socialist equality. When the country was opened to the capitalist world market, Albania as a whole sank into economic collapse. As cheap foreign goods flooded in, many domestic Albanian factories closed. Agriculture also stagnated. Formerly collective village granaries, day care centers, meeting halls and mills fell into disrepair–as the collective village organizations were broken up. Each farming family was now on its own, trying to make a living. A small handful was starting to get wealthy at the expense of the majority. The reactionary traditions of Albania’s patriarchal clans got a new lease on life. The promises of foreign investment and loans also faded. Albania, it was said, did not have the “infrastructure”–highways, railroads, electrical power–needed for profitable investments. A few …
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