She believed her parents loved Enver Hoxha’s Stalinist regime. But once Albania’s communist system collapsed, Lea Ypi began to realise nothing was as it seemed …
Khrushchev tries to put Stalinism behind and launch a Peace Offensive globally.
The West responds with 30 years of corruption, sabotage, and terrorism, culminating in fascist regimes pockmarking over half the world.
Then the USSR collapses under its own weight, and Westerners are left with a thousand little Eichmenns feuding over the boundaries of their own little fiefs. Just feels like we're on the cusp of a new Dark Age.
the right-wing coups of 1989 were an unmitigated disaster for the world
Khrushchev tries to put Stalinism behind and launch a Peace Offensive globally.
The West responds with 30 years of corruption, sabotage, and terrorism, culminating in fascist regimes pockmarking over half the world.
Then the USSR collapses under its own weight, and Westerners are left with a thousand little Eichmenns feuding over the boundaries of their own little fiefs. Just feels like we're on the cusp of a new Dark Age.