<p>> You don't need isolation, just under-development.</p><p>Right.<br />It's just that in Albania's case under-development was arguably a consequence of isolation, or perhaps more generally of the regime's full set of policies, and those stood out from the rest of the communist regimes in Europe.</p><p>The latter could be divided into three parts:</p><p>the Soviet bloc (each country with its own idiosyncrasies, of course);</p><p>Yugoslavia;</p><p>Albania (among these, the least known, both East and West).</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span></p>
