In the December 1945 Albanian election, the only effective ballot choices were those of the communist Democratic Front ( Albania ), led by Enver Hoxha.

Enver Hoxha at age 18

Enver Hoxha delivered the main report to the assembled delegates on 8 April 1942.

In July 1942, a " Call to the Albanian Peasantry " was written by Enver Hoxha and issued in the name of the Communist Party of Albania.

The General Headquarters was created with Spiro Moisiu as the commander and Enver Hoxha as political commissary.

Enver Hoxha following the liberation of Tirana in 1944.

* 1991 – A gigantic statue of Albania's long-time leader, Enver Hoxha, is brought down in the Albanian capital Tirana, by mobs of angry protesters.

After the collapse of the Axis powers, Albania became a communist state, the Socialist People's Republic of Albania, which for the most part of its duration was dominated by Enver Hoxha ( died 1985 ).

Enver Hoxha became the leader of the country by virtue of his position as Secretary General of the Albanian Communist Party.

A provisional government the communists had formed at Berat in October administered Albania with Enver Hoxha as prime minister.

Enver Hoxha in 1971

Enver Hoxha and Mehmet Shehu emerged as communist leaders in Albania.

Enver Hoxha, who ruled Albania for four decades, died on 11 April 1985.

The former Enver Hoxha Mausoleum in Tirana

Known officially as the People's Republic of Albania from 1946 to 1976, and then as the People's Socialist Republic of Albania from 1976 to 1991, Albania spent much of this time under the regime of Enver Hoxha, who severely restricted citizens ' freedom and contact with the outside world.

* 1946 – Enver Hoxha, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Albania, declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as head of state.

Colonel David Smiley, an aristocratic Guards officer who had helped Enver Hoxha and his Communist guerillas to liberate Albania, now prepared to liberate it from Hoxha.

* 1908 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian dictator ( d. 1985 )

A few of the notable exceptions were North Korea under Kim Il-sung, the People's Republic of China, under Mao Zedong, the Albanian Party of Labour under Enver Hoxha, the Communist Party of Indonesia, certain sections of the Communist Party of Vietnam, and the Communist Party of New Zealand.

The Socialist People's Republic of Albania took the Chinese party's side in the Sino-Soviet Split and remained committed, at least theoretically, to Hoxhaism, its brand of Stalinism, for decades thereafter, under the leadership of Enver Hoxha.

* October 16 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian dictator ( d. 1985 )

** Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania, with himself as prime minister.

* February 7 – Nexhmije Hoxha, widow of Enver Hoxha

Nexhmije Hoxha ( Serbian: Неџмије Хоџа, Nedžmije Hodža ) (; born February 7, 1921 ) is the widow of Albanian communist leader Enver Hoxha.

Liman was rid of the old Baron when Enver Pasha sent him to fight the British in Mesopotamia in October 1915.

Notable dictators have included Park Chung-hee, Nicolae Ceauşescu, Josip Broz-Tito, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, Enver Hoxha, Leonid Brezhnev, Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-Il also owned a landaulet ( both seen in the 65th anniversary parade in Pyongyang on October 10, 2010 ) and religious leader Guru Maharaj Ji.

As soon as the war started, October 31, 1914, Enver ordered that all men of military age report to army recruiting offices.

Faced with defeat, the Sultan dismissed Enver from his post as War Minister on October 4, 1918, while the rest of Talat Pasha's government resigned on October 14, 1918.

Enver first went to Germany in October 1918 where he communicated and worked with German Communist figures like Karl Radek.

In October 1919, Enver left for Moscow in order to serve as a secret envoy for his friend General Hans von Seeckt who wished for a German-Soviet alliance.

In October 1919 Seeckt sent out his close friend Enver Pasha on a secret mission to Moscow to make contracts with the Soviets.

Adil Çarçani ( May 15, 1922 – October 13, 1997 ) was an Albanian politician in the Communist regime led by Enver Hoxha.

Between April 13, 1985 and 1992 ( during the communist regime ), UT was called the Enver Hoxha University of Tirana ( Universiteti i Tiranës " Enver Hoxha ") after the Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha, who died on April 11, 1985.

William ' Barbosa ' Bland ( Bill Bland ) ( April 28, 1916 – March 13, 2001 ) was a British Marxist-Leninist and optician who was notable as a worldwide leader of a movement that backed Enver Hoxha, the Albanian communist leader, in the struggles over Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy in the later 1960s.

Strauss visited communist Albania on 21 August 1984, while Enver Hoxha, the ruler from the end of World War II until his death in 1985, was still alive.

* Enver Hoxha ( Secretary of the Central Committee to February, 1943 ) November 8, 1941-April 11, 1985

Enver Hoxha's Museum ( Pyramid ) was dismantled in 1991 and renamed in honor of persecuted activist Pjeter Arbnori.

* Enver Hoxha's rule in Albania was characterized in the 1970s by growing isolation, first from a very public schism with the Soviet Union the decade before, and then by a split in friendly relations with China in 1978.

Mercedes Benz cars were owned by Enver Hoxha and reportedly favored by his officials, giving the brand a foothold even before private ownership of cars was legalized.

The pro-Albanian camp would start to function as an international group as well, led by Enver Hoxha and the APL, and was also able to amalgamate many of the communist groups in Latin America, including the Communist Party of Brazil and Marxist-Leninist Communist Party in Ecuador.

Mao Zedong's Three Worlds Theory is described as realpolitik by his critics, including Enver Hoxha, who point out that it was not based in a strong ideological basis, being used only to justify China's alignment with the United States rather than the Soviet Union.

The first country experiencing this approach was Albania, where leader Enver Hoxha immediately changed course from favoring Yugoslavia to opposing it.

He was appointed by Enver Hoxha to fill Albania with bunkers, a legacy that Albania has until today.

Historian James Reid has asserted that " What Wagner was to Hitler, Gökalp was to Enver Pasha.

Female soloists from this period include: Makbule Enver, Mahmure, and Neriman ; Beşiktaşlı Kemal Senman was the most sought after male singer for duets.

It may be noted that the charip idea of a self-contained economy was unlike other countries that withdrew from the world economy such as Albania under Enver Hoxha and Myanmar ( Burma ), two countries that " withdrew " to no apparent purpose as their economies idled along or got worse ; North Korea didn't idle but grew until the 1980s.

During the early 1990s, Shkodër was once again a major center, this time of the democratic movement that finally brought to an end the communist regime established by Enver Hoxha.

Shehu was considered to be Enver Hoxha's right hand man and the second most important person in Albania.

Cemetery of the PartisansAfter WWII, under communism, the port was leased to the Soviet Union as a submarine base, and played an important part in the conflict between Enver Hoxha and Nikita Khrushchev in 1960-1961, as the Soviet Union had made considerable investments in the naval facilities at nearby Pasha Liman and objected strongly to the loss of them as a consequence of Albania denouncing the USSR as ' revisionist ' and taking the Chinese side in the split in the world communist movement.

Instead, they followed Albania, which was led by Enver Hoxha.

Other Communist countries with leaders in their 70s or 80s have included Albania ( First Secretary Enver Hoxha was 76 at death ), Czechoslovakia ( President Gustáv Husák was 76 at his resignation ), East Germany ( General Secretary and head of state Erich Honecker was 77 when forced out ), Hungary ( General Secretary János Kádár was 75 when forced out ), Laos ( President Nouhak Phoumsavanh was 83 at retirement ), North Korea ( President Kim Il-sung was 82 at death ), Romania ( General Secretary and President Nicolae Ceauşescu was 70 when he was killed ), Vietnam ( President Truong Chinh was 80 at retirement ), Yugoslavia ( President Josip Broz Tito was 87 at death ).