Talk:Socialist People's Republic of Albania

Socialist People's or People's Socialist?

I've seen various documents and such as the constitution (http://bjoerna.dk/dokumentation/Albanian-Constitution-1976.htm) call it the People's Socialist Republic rather than Socialist People's Republic. Any more info on this? --Mrdie (talk) 07:40, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Actually, the CIA factbook, a more serious or official website, uses the correct form of the name: People's Socialist Republic of Albania. The correct constitutional name in Albanian (and I am a native speaker as well as aware of that constitution) is 'Republika Popullore Socialiste e Shqiperise', translated in English as 'The People's Socialist Republic of Albania'. That is, the Republic is Socialist (hence, Socialist Republic), and the Socialist Republic is of the People (hence People's Socialist Republic).--_Arbër ^{T •  ?} 11:09, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Albanian-Yugoslav tensions

This section sported some pretty unbelievable claims and POV wording. All the sentences would be ok if they were sourced, but they'll need some serious verifiable sources. I've edited the following (completely unreferenced) sentences:

• "...Tito aimed to use his choke hold on the Albanian party to incorporate the entire country into Yugoslavia."
  • Nice conspiracy theory, that. It will require some serious sources before it can get back anywhere though.
• "The Yugoslav government clearly regarded investment in Albania as investment in the future of Yugoslavia itself."
  • Total speculation. No place for that stuff in an encyclopedia.
• "After Germany's withdrawal from Kosovo in late 1944, Yugoslavia's communist partisans took possession of the province and committed retaliatory massacres against Albanians."
  • That's another unfounded claim. Sources please, lots of them.
• "Before World War II, the Communist Party of Yugoslavia had supported transferring Kosovo to Albania, but Yugoslavia's postwar communist regime insisted on preserving the country's pre-war borders."
  • Again: sources please.

--DIREKTOR ^(TALK) 13:45, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Move back the page

Could someone undo the absurd move? --DIREKTOR ^(TALK) 10:01, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

Volunteers and Gulags

As a volunteer myself working in Albania, I find the weekly "vullnetar" forced labor quite interesting, though I haven't seen much on it? Does this warrant a mention in the article? Related, there is little mention of the prison system in Albania, perhaps there should be something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag ? Spyenson (talk) 12:53, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Plagiarism

There are sources which are written before this article and which contain large parts of the same text as this article:

1. An overwiew og the Albanian history, Blendi Barolli (2005), link
2. Albania a country study (1992) link

Here is the text which is, more or less, the same:

In 1967, the authorities conducted a violent campaign to extinguish religious life in Albania, claiming that religion had divided the Albanian nation and kept it mired in backwardness. Student agitators combed the countryside, forcing Albanians to quit practicing their faith. Despite complaints, even by APL members, all churches, mosques, monasteries, and other religious institutions had been closed or converted into warehouses, gymnasiums, and workshops by year's end. A special decree abrogated the charters by which the country's main religious communities had operated. The campaign culminated in an announcement that Albania had become the world's first atheistic state, a feat touted as one of Enver Hoxha's greatest achievements.

I hope I am wrong and I don't know what is the procedure in such cases, but I hope someone knows better.--Antidiskriminator (talk) 17:51, 26 August 2011 (UTC)