Word: saseno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lisbon, Vice Admiral Charles R. Brown, commander of the U.S. Sixth Fleet, took public notice of greatly increased movements of Soviet cruisers and destroyers through the Dardanelles into the eastern Mediterranean. The Russians are thought to have established a base, complete with floating drydock, on Albania's Saseno Island...
...Moscow's only isolated satellite. Its 1,250,000 people, largely dirt poor and illiterate, are ruled by 48,000 Communists, who in turn owe allegiance to the handsome and savagely cruel Communist dictator, Enver Hoxha. Except for an occasional Soviet submarine putting in at Albania's Saseno naval base,* and risky air communications across mountainous and hostile Greece and Yugoslavia, Albania has no contact with the Soviet world. It has almost none with...
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