He resigned, Italian troops were sent in to maintain order in Albania. Foreign troops during the Kosovo war in 1999 has helped Albania s economy. Romania is also very poor. The dictator, Ceausescu, built large Soviet-style apartment buildings even in small towns. He required the people to buy them, but he gave no compensation for destroying their private homes.
Farmers usually like to live in a private home near the fields where they work.
Ceausescu and his wife were given a quick trial and executed on December 25, 1989. I have made several trips to Yugoslavia. I always found the people to be friendly, like most people throughout the Balkans. Young women are often pretty, the men are handsome. Some 44 percent of Bosnians and a majority of Albanians in Albania and Kosovo trace their ancestors back to Muslims, but today few go regularly to a mosque.