From the end of 1960 until his death in April 1985, Hoxha did not leave his country; indeed, he almost never left the so-called Blloku (Block), a centrally located district in Tirana that was only ...

In recent years, as the Blloku district of the Albanian capital ... a taxi driver and long-standing Tirana resident. For Lani, the villa is 'historic evidence of what the dictatorship once ...