Albania, a small country with a land area of only 28,000 square kilometers and a population of less than 3 million, has been reduced to one of the poorest countries in Europe today, known as the "Island of Europe" and the "Socialist Bunker".
In the eyes of Chinese, Albania in the 1960s was a good brother of "brotherhood", food, materials, equipment, weapons and other aid from China was continuously sent to Albania, and during the "honeymoon period" of Sino-Arab relations, Albania was full of yellow faces from the East, and China even purchased wheat from Canada to alleviate Albania's grain shortage.
You know, in that era, Chinese they still couldn't eat enough, tightened their pants belts, and the mechanical equipment and precision instruments that they sent to them were randomly stacked in the open air, let the wind and rain blow, the high-grade steel pipes aided by China could not be used up, they took it to make a telephone pole, Chinese experts shed tears in pain, reminded them not to waste at will, they did not care to say "it's okay, if it's broken, you give it again."
Tirana, the capital of Albania
With China's assistance, the Albanian people spent a happy and pleasant life in the 1960s and 1970s, according to statistics, since 1954, China has given them economic and military assistance of nearly 9 billion yuan, when the Albanian population was only 2 million, the average reached 4,000 yuan per person, china-assisted fertilizer plants, with an annual output of 200,000 tons, an average of 400 kilograms of land per hectare, far exceeding the fertilizer use standards of our own arable land. And the sheer number of projects aided in military projects far exceeds their defense needs.
At that time the leader of Albania Enver. Hoxha's treatment of diplomacy depends on the determination of one person, he is a fanatical fan of Stalin, he also worships Stalin's doctrine as a god, uses iron fist means to control the Albanian people for 49 years, and carried out a total of 12 cruel purges, so he was admired by thousands of people before he died, but after his death, he was dug up and exhumed. In the 1980s, when the world economy was developing rapidly, Albania was always poor, and they were reluctant to open their international doors because they did not want to let foreigners enjoy the sunny air beach, men could not wear flared pants, and women could not wear miniskirts, so as not to pollute albania's purity.
Enville. Hoxha
But Comrade Hoxha has always been justified in asking for money, and the lion opened his mouth, and he once openly said to the leaders of the allied country of China, "What you have, we must also have", and the second-in-command at the time, Sheikh (Muhammad. Ismail. Sheakh also said, "We don't want you from whom?", and later they began to point fingers at China's diplomacy, and in the 1970s, when Sino-US relations were normalized, Hoxha accused China of not consulting him in advance, and even maliciously said that China wanted to be the leader of the Third World, sit in the first chair of non-alignment, and then turned around and asked China to give them aid in 500 tanks.
At the end of 1976, Hoxha received a bad news that China could not meet their unbridled demands for economic and military assistance, which made Comrade Hoxha "indignant", so at the end of 1978, the relations between the two sides were completely broken, and they blocked China.
After World War II, Albania's diplomatic allies changed from Yugoslavia to the Soviet Union and then to China, but Hoxha offended allies who were willing to ally with him and were willing to give him aid, so he turned his target to the capitalist Federal Republic of Germany.
Germany accepted his demand for the establishment of diplomatic relations, but Hoxha once again opened his mouth, demanding that Germany first compensate them 4.7 billion US dollars before establishing diplomatic relations, in order to get this money, Hoxha also organized a song and dance troupe to go to Germany to perform, the Germans hurriedly opened the door and said no to him.
Then Hoxha set his sights on Albania's "feud", Turkey, which closed its doors, as Germany did.
But this country also has a god's operation, when the country is poor and can't open the pot, but the strength of the whole country to build 700,000 bunkers, an average of one per 5 people, turning the country into an isolated "bunker kingdom".
Bunkers in Albania