The History of Albanian Communism

In 1990 there was a wind of change across Eastern Europe, obviously the Berlin Wall had fallen in 1989. And that touched more Albania because the history of Albanian communism was somewhat perceived by citizens as more in parallel with Romanian communism. In 1991, the first democratic elections took place since the communists had taken power almost 50 years earlier. Leah describes the chaos that ensued as Albania embraced unbridled capitalism, leaving it on the brink of civil war.