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An isolated country,Albania use to have about 850 hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers dot the landscape like mutant toadstools. They persist as a symbol of paranoia, an indestructible reminder of where this country has come from and the challenges that lie ahead.
It doesn't take a psychologist to perceive the impact of such imagery on 3.5 million people. The math is easy: for every four Albanians, there's one bunker.
The bunkers, each large enough for a man and his rifle, were built by Albania's Stalinist dictator who feared invasion from all corners, from NATO and even the Soviet Union, fortifying against an enemy that never came.
Enver Hoxha the paranoid dictator dotted the country with hundreds of thousands of bunkers, like this one on the picture…the good thing is that today some take that chance to make a good commercial for …COCA-COLA!

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