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 (; 16 October 190811 April 1985 ) was the Communist leader of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985, as the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania.

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

And, after becoming the right-hand man of Enver Pasha, he is sent by the latter to pave the way for a new Turkish Empire embracing `` the union of all Turks throughout Central Asia from Adrianople to the Chinese oases on the Silk Trade Route ''.

On 20 September 2011, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Enver Hoxhaj after Serbian speculation for the recognition received confirmation from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Oman, Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah of full recognition of the independence of Kosovo.

* 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.

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

But the bunkerisation of Albania produced a disaster, causing Enver Hoxha to send Moisiu to Burrel, where he served as the commander of an engineers ' company from 1982 to 1984.

Unknown in the times of Tintin were later strong leaders from the same area: Nicolae Ceaușescu of Romania, Todor Zhivkov of Bulgaria and Enver Hoxha of Albania.

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.

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.

On 9 December 1990, student demonstrators marched from the Enver Hoxha University ( now University of Tirana ) at Tirana through the streets of the capital shouting slogans and demanding a reforms.

The OFS actively recruited members from the Third Army base, among them Major Ismail Enver.

The dominant figure in modern Albanian history, Enver Hoxha rose from obscurity to lead his people for a longer time than any other ruler.

Mehmet Shehu shared power with Enver Hoxha from the end of the Second World War.

Notably, two principal leaders from this time, Enver Pasha and Ahmed Djemal, would in fact die in the Soviet Union leading Muslim anti-Communist movements years after the Russian Revolution and the Ottoman defeat in World War I.

Enver Bey took advantage of the situation and led an army into Eastern Thrace, recovering Adrianople from the Bulgarians, who had concentrated their forces against the Serbs and Greeks.

Enver looked for victory when Russia withdrew from the Caucasus region.

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.

On January 1, 1919, the new government expelled Enver Pasha from the army.

The strategy of concessions with airstrikes was successful, and when in May 1922 Enver Pasha rejected a peace offer and issued an ultimatum demanding that all Red Army troops be withdrawn from Turkestan within fifteen days, Moscow was well prepared for a confrontation.

In the summer of 1920, Enver sent Seeckt a letter from Moscow asking for German arms deliveries to the Soviet Union in exchange for which Trotsky promised to partition Poland with the Reich.