A museum in Albania aims to commemorate a painful past
And so illuminate the post-communist present
Down you go, deep into one of the biggest hideaway bunkers of what was once the nastiest communist regime in eastern Europe. Now restored as a museum known as Bunk’Art 2, the underground labyrinth was completed only in 1986—a year after the death of Enver Hoxha, who became Albania’s dictator in 1944, modelling himself on Josef Stalin and often matching him in his paranoia, purges and terror.
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