Although the bunkers were never used in a real conflict during Hoxha's rule...

Are anti-Hoxhaists really just revisionists? People make fun of Albania's bunkers, but clearly the good people of Albania put them to good, communal use as well as effective local defenses when necessary. Was Enver Hoxha a true visionary who kept the spirit of communism alive well past his death?

If I'm not mistaken in Albania it's good luck to have a picture of Hoxha above you when having sex to increase the chance of a child

Imagine being so based you consistently get people laid from beyond the grave as a tradition.

t. Tonibler

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Some bunkers in key areas, sure. But hundreds of thousands? That money could've been used for modernizing the military, or social services.

How are bunkers clearly not both?

Hoxha was the biggest revisionist of all.

How so?

I know this is jokes'n'shit, but I honestly don't get the idea of "one man" bunkers. Like, these things are pretty small, right? How long could a soldier reasonably stay in one of these things?

It just seems like spending a ton of money to put giant cysts everywhere. Of course people would use them eventually, why not?

People have probably used them as toilets, too, but you don't see anyone boasting about it.

The idea you revisionist is that Albania greatly expands its sphere of influence through its numerous bunker fortifications, which can be easily garrisoned by highly trained infantry militia, each one able to hold off 100 Yugoslavian dogs. Eventually, Albania has bunkers spanning from sea to shining sea, and everywhere from Greenland to Siberia is kept safe by the warm embrace of Hoxha's bunkers.

It doesn't have to end like this.

They wouldn't have stopped Tito from slapping his shit tbh.

Albania was literally in the middle of a homelessness epidemic when they were being constructed too. Anybody who unironically likes Hoxha for anything other than memes is retarded, he was an Admiral General Aladeen tier tinpot backwater dictator.

It was the poorest country in Europe and possibly the world and had just emerged from a fascist occupation that cut-short the monarchy that attained the brief "independence" they had after centuries of Venetian-Ottoman rule.

Half of Albanian children died in childbirth and there wasn't a single university in the country prior to the revolution. The place was literally a bigger shithole then pre-revolution China which was considered the poorest country in the world at one time, certainly the poorest large nation as it was poorer then India.

By the 70s they were the first nation to achieve 100% electrification, so I'd consider that quite a turn around. Hoxha left his people better off then the inhabitants of Maotistan and unlike Yugoslavia there wasn't a series of genocides and bloody civil wars that occurred, so there's that.

whaddya think of this

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autism/10

He revised the landscape with pointless bunkers.

Really makes you think.

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Hoxhaism is perhaps the most coherent, modern interpretation of Marxism-Leninism.

Any new M-L state would find themselves beset on all sides by hostile capitalist powers, and possibly revisionist socialist states more amenable to compromise with capitalism. Defending against both foreign invasion and internal subversion would require a centralized, single-party state, and likely a unifying leader like Hoxha to hold it together. And since outward revolutionary aggression would be taken as an invitation by the capitalists to begin bombing in five minutes, such a M-L state would have to have a strong, permanent defensive military posture, which in Albania's case included building a shitton of concrete bunkers. The goal for such a state is to hold on to life, defending their gains with fervent paranoia until…global revolution happens, someday, I guess.

If that doesn't sound appealing, then maybe Marxist-Leninist state socialism just isn't for you.

I can't believe everybody ignored this wonderful post.

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First where is the proof that Albania was a monarchy? Its not like power was passed down hereditarily after Hoxha's death. Second where are the actual arguments against this post? Do you not defend the revolution to your last breath after you make it?

What would your solution be when you were in a Europe surrounded by hostile super-powers and other capitalist powers? Just hope they were nice? Bend your knee make your country some Ikea assembly-shop like the East Germans or the Yugoslavs did, but hey at least it was more humanistic and less isolationist right ?

How difficult would it be to squat a bunker in Albania?

I'd like to know this aswell. Imagine what you could use them for. Probably not housing, but anarchist cafes and bookclubs in bunkers would be dope.