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...Albania (pop. 1,100,000) is the most obscure, backward and isolated country behind the Iron Curtain. The best place to find information about life inside the small Red satellite these days is neighboring Yugoslavia. After a trip to Yugoslavia, TIME Correspondent Robert Lubar cabled...
...tend their flocks, and on the lake, fishermen in shallow wooden canoes spear fish with steel-tipped lances. Across the lake it is possible to see the outlines of the Albanian city of Scutari (pop. 29,000). That is just about the only view an outsider can get of Albania today, but from the stories that drift across the frontier, it is possible to piece together a more accurate picture. Albania is the only satellite state which is not joined geographically to the Soviet family. Tito's Yugoslavia separates Albania from Communist Bulgaria and the other Russian satellites. This...
...Russians do not appear to be developing Albania as a base for war. According to the best available information, they are not building a submarine base in Albania, as has been rumored. Russians are there first of all to pilfer the country, taking out oil, chrome and other minerals...
Practically the only capital equipment the Russians have put into Albania are trucks to transport ore, and pipelines which carry oil to the port of Durazzo...
...then the Central Committee of the Albanian Workers' Party (Communist) has gone through several purges. The new Deputy Premier and Chief of Police is an Albanian named Mehmet Shehu (rhymes with say who), a Moslem who fought for Stalin in the Spanish civil war, was a partisan in Albania during World War II, went through advanced training in Moscow...