Albania, Blood Feuds and Pyramid Scams - Travel Ideas
By Tom Thumb, Posted Dec 11, 2006
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By Tom Thumb, Posted Dec 11, 2006
Sections: Intro Albania Cuba Central Asia The Pacific Bluefields, Nicaragua Colombia The Guyanas Unknown India Iran Yemen More Travel Ideas
For 5 decades since the second world war, Albania was an island unto itself, cut off from both the capitalistic and the communist world. Workers on oil rigs used to sail unmanned rafts with sails towards the Albanian coast just to watch the coastguard open fire on it.
Of course with the massive regime changes in Europe in the 90’s, Albania couldn’t hang on for long. In fact, after the various blood factions grew tired of slaughtering one another, they embraced the free market with such enthusiasm that the entire country (including the government) went broke as a result of a pyramid scheme scam.
Since then, Albania has become famous for exporting the worst criminals Europe has seen. Apparently, though, there are none left in Albania and travelers ought to be swift in striking out for the Albanian hills to find out what’s been going on in one of the strangest countries in the world.
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