Some stuff on Albania under Hoxha retrieved from an old archived thread:
Historically Albania was a gun-friendly country. Not in the National Rifle Association sense, but in the "glorious tribe with its helmsman defends the family from the blood feud which have engulfed his relatives" sense.
Hoxha in 1968: "All our people are armed in the full meaning of the word. Every Albanian city-dweller or villager, has his weapon at home. Our army itself, the army of a soldier people, is ready at any moment to strike at any enemy or coalition of enemies." (Selected Works Vol. IV, p. 501.)
Jan Myrdal, a sympathetic political "pilgrim," recounted the following in Albania Defiant (p. 17):
>"The entire Albanian people are armed, but the navy, the air force, and armored units are—naturally enough—not particularly strong. In May 1961 the Soviet leaders tried to undermine Albania's defenses by giving their officers orders to steal Albania's eight submarines. Naturally, this theft irritated the Albanians. But it hardly undermined Albania's defenses, which are based on the ability of its totally armed population to defend its mountains."
And page 146:
>"Chinese support is important, but crucial to Albania's defense is that the entire Albanian people are armed, have weapons. There are weapons in every village. Ten minutes after the alarm sounds, the entire population of a village must be ready for combat. There has never been any shortage of weapons in Albania, but never have the people been as armed as they are today."
The country stressed self-defense a lot more than most other states.
I'm sure, regardless, that there was restrictions on the official stance on gun ownership, but from what I've read and seen guns more or less flowed freely, which could be seen for instance when the authority of the state corroded in the 1990-1992 period and when, as a result, blood feuds rose right back up again and were conducted with military arms.
>Citizens were trained from the age of 12 to station themselves in the nearest bunker to repel invaders.[9] Local Party cells organised families to clean and maintain their local bunkers,[10] and civil defence drills were held at least twice a month, lasting for up to three days, in which civilians of military age of both sexes were issued with rifles (but no ammunition).[18]
And your /leftyb/ posts. I was looking through the archives. https://web.archive.org/web/20190801214008/https://8ch.net/leftyb/res/3579.html Wayback Machine did not save 8chan images but at least the text is preserved.
Heh, those were good days. I actually have been recompiling my stuff from those posts and slowly organizing them into comprehensive effort posts that I might repost someday. The years have not been kind to 8ch but I have learned new stuff since!
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Some stuff on Albania under Hoxha retrieved from an old archived thread:
Historically Albania was a gun-friendly country. Not in the National Rifle Association sense, but in the "glorious tribe with its helmsman defends the family from the blood feud which have engulfed his relatives" sense.
Hoxha in 1968: "All our people are armed in the full meaning of the word. Every Albanian city-dweller or villager, has his weapon at home. Our army itself, the army of a soldier people, is ready at any moment to strike at any enemy or coalition of enemies." (Selected Works Vol. IV, p. 501.)
Jan Myrdal, a sympathetic political "pilgrim," recounted the following in Albania Defiant (p. 17):
>"The entire Albanian people are armed, but the navy, the air force, and armored units are—naturally enough—not particularly strong. In May 1961 the Soviet leaders tried to undermine Albania's defenses by giving their officers orders to steal Albania's eight submarines. Naturally, this theft irritated the Albanians. But it hardly undermined Albania's defenses, which are based on the ability of its totally armed population to defend its mountains."
And page 146:
>"Chinese support is important, but crucial to Albania's defense is that the entire Albanian people are armed, have weapons. There are weapons in every village. Ten minutes after the alarm sounds, the entire population of a village must be ready for combat. There has never been any shortage of weapons in Albania, but never have the people been as armed as they are today."
The country stressed self-defense a lot more than most other states.
I'm sure, regardless, that there was restrictions on the official stance on gun ownership, but from what I've read and seen guns more or less flowed freely, which could be seen for instance when the authority of the state corroded in the 1990-1992 period and when, as a result, blood feuds rose right back up again and were conducted with military arms.
- https://archive.org/details/AlbaniaDefiant/page/n1
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v_z48do7NQ
>Citizens were trained from the age of 12 to station themselves in the nearest bunker to repel invaders.[9] Local Party cells organised families to clean and maintain their local bunkers,[10] and civil defence drills were held at least twice a month, lasting for up to three days, in which civilians of military age of both sexes were issued with rifles (but no ammunition).[18]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunkers_in_Albania
https://web.archive.org/web/20190802143342/https://8ch.net/leftyk/res/39.html
LOL you found my /leftyk/ posts, Kek how did anyone remember this?
And your /leftyb/ posts. I was looking through the archives.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190801214008/https://8ch.net/leftyb/res/3579.html
Wayback Machine did not save 8chan images but at least the text is preserved.
Heh, those were good days. I actually have been recompiling my stuff from those posts and slowly organizing them into comprehensive effort posts that I might repost someday. The years have not been kind to 8ch but I have learned new stuff since!