Albania

Albania, officially the Republic of Albania is a country located in Southeast Europe in the Balkans. Albania borders Montenegro, Serbia, North Macedonia, Kosovo and Greece.
==History==
===Pre-Cold War===
Albania has a long history of being ruled by many foreign countries, including the Byzantine and Venetian Empires. After four centuries of Turkish domination, finally in the 20th century an independent Albania was born. In 1939 it was conquered by fascist Italy and was part of the Kingdom of Italy until 1943.
===Cold War and the Third World War===
thumb|250px|Hoxha's army during the Cold WarAfter World War II Albania became independent again, and this time it was under communist rule of a dictator known as Enver Hoxha. Influenced by Stalin, Hoxha maintained the rule of an iron fist over Albania. He took away the faith from Albanians, enforcing state atheism and ordering anti-religious persecution against both Muslims and Christians, build thousands of bunkers in case for a potential war, and imprisoned, executed, or exiled thousands of landowners, rural clan leaders, peasants who resisted collectivization, and allegedly disloyal party officials. He even allowed the Soviet Union to establish a mutant-making laboratory in Albania; during the final months of the Third World War the mutants broke loose and breached the containment of their laboratory.Communist Albania was also a member of the COMECON.
After the Third World War, Albania freed itself from communism, becoming a democratic country; thankfully for the poor Balkan country, it did not support the Communist invasion during the Third World War enough to be considered an aggressor, instead being retroactively considered a country twisted into serving the Marxist-Leninist cause by the lunatic Hoxha. Thus it thankfully avoided much repercussions after the war.
==Appearances==
*Reds Over World, E6M2 City Of The Damned (First appearance, mentioned) 
==Trivia==
*In early 2023, the author toyed with the idea of including a mission in Albania in the Second Soviet Campaign, where the player was to stop a powerful American robot prototype, with him engaging in several fights with it through Albanian countryside and forests. The robot in question was going to be the Black Inquisitor enemy from Realm667. The robot was first going to appear in Avalanche as well.
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