Hoxha

[haw-jah]

noun

1. Enver 1908–85, Albanian political leader: premier 1944–54, First Secretary of the Central Committee 1954–1985.

Hoxha

/ ˈhodʒa /

noun

1. Enver (ˈemver). 1908–85, Albanian statesman: founded the Albanian Communist Party in 1941 and was its first secretary (1954–85)

Example Sentences

When Lea Ypi published “Free” in 2021, the book was acclaimed for its account of life under Enver Hoxha, the communist despot who ruled Albania from the end of World War II until his death in 1985.

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It’s often said that Hoxha turned Albania into a Balkan North Korea, but he was, in truth, more isolationist even than the North Korean Kims.

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He later unfriended Deng Xiaoping’s China when it opened up its economy, an act Hoxha regarded as abominable.

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Her Greek birthplace came to be a lifelong handicap: the Hoxha regime was convinced she was a foreign spy.

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It didn’t help that her husband—who’d known Hoxha when the two men were students together in Paris—was found guilty by a kangaroo court of plotting to overthrow the government.

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