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Well, let's look at what was happening in Albania.

Since forever: Ruled by ottoman empire

...along comes the 20th century...

1912: We declare independence!

1914: Let's pick a king...

1925: Let's pick a new king...

1939: I guess the Italians are king now...

1944: Communism, we're all kings!

1946: Hoxha is the king of kings

[thih9]

1991: nope, let’s elect a parliament

1997: one more time and without pyramid schemes[1]

2009: nato

2014: official eu candidate

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_schemes_in_Albania

[vasco]

The pyramid scheme one is scary, I wonder what will happen when crypto collapses. It's gotten so big that it infects the rest of the financial system in a big way already - globally.

[Yawrehto]

"Everyone is a king, but some kings are more kingly than others."

Fun fact about World War II Albania: pretty much uniquely, especially in the region (Yugoslavia had a death rate of over 80 percent, with some regions having death rates closer to 90 percent[1][2][3]) they came out of it with more Jews than they started with.

[1] https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/jewish-los...

[2] Technically Montenegro had a death rate of 93 percent, but in practice that was 28 out of 30 Jews, so I'm not counting them.

[3] Long digression: That was not the worst, by the way. The worst was almost certainly Poland, which had 3.3 million Jews before the war (for reference: 18% of the Jewish population of the world, over 33 percent of that of Europe), killed 82-89% of them, and killed many of the survivors who tried to return home. A quick estimate, putting Poland's death rate at even 80% and 3 million Jews, means that if you said 'death rate for Europe except for Poland', i.e., pretending Poland wasn't in Europe, the overall death rate drops to 40%. Without that, i.e., including Poland, it is at 66%. All six death camps were located in Poland. They were 10% Jewish before the war and roughly 0.02% of it today even by generous estimates (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_population_by_country#B...). By literally any measure--even the most generous possible for Poland and least generous for others--all three of their total population (10,000), percent of the world Jewish population (0.048) and numbers per million Poles (267) are lower (or equal to) than those for such famously Jewish countries as Panama, Spain, Sweden, Brazil, South Africa, or Mexico. If you're ever told you're going to be teleported to some German-occupied country in World War Two as a Jew, don't pick Poland.

[KptMarchewa]

>The worst was almost certainly Poland, which had 3.3 million Jews before the war (for reference: 18% of the Jewish population of the world, over 33 percent of that of Europe), killed 82-89% of them

Wow, that was done by Poles in Poland? How did that happen? Certainly the whole nation had to be behind this? [0]

>some German-occupied country in World War Two

Ah, the bare minimum mention at the end.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Righteous_Among_the_Nations#Nu...

[GJim]

> Fun fact about World War II Albania...... they came out of it with more Jews than they started with.

That is perhaps an interesting fact. But not really a fun one.

[Yawrehto]

Well, it was more fun than the one about Poland...and it wasn't all about death and dying and genocide, which is really as fun as Holocaust facts get.