On May 9, 1945, Soviet soldiers occupied Berlin. But what was thought of as the end of the brutal Nazi regime was the beginning of another dictatorship that had the German capital, Germany, and the rest of Europe divided for …
April 7, 1939: The fascist invasion of Albania
On April 7, 1939, Fascist Italy invaded Albania. Resistance in the tiny European country was brief. King Zog I, Queen Geraldine, and their newborn son were forced into exile.
“The b*** has escaped,” said the Italian foreign minister, Count Ciano, …
Anniversary of Nato’s Kosovo campaign
March 24, 1999 — The U.S.-led NATO troops begin the 78-day aerial campaign against Serbia and the so-called Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to stop the genocide in Kosova (Kosovo). I remember the evening of 15 years ago when Western jets …
Did Bismarck support “greater Albania”?
(Excerpt from Jusuf Buxhovi’s Kosova history series)
Lexoje shqip • Read in Albanian
Overdue by a year, the Albanian League assigned Abdyl Frashëri and Mehmet Ali Vrioni to travel to European capitals to present the Albanian issue as key to …