so did hoxha run the country from this house? we can say yes. together with his mates. we had all the government leaders living here and all the party leaders. we were not allowed to walk in this area. it was totally closed. so in 1990, when we started to have all the, you know, the uprising of albanians and we have the civil... kind of the civil war here, that we changed the system. the first thing that we did, albanians were coming here in blloku. they were so curious about this area, you know, it was isolated. we didn't know what was going inside. and me as a young person, you know, iwasjust 16 at the time, we were just skipping school. we were coming here the whole day, we were sitting down. it was totally new beginning for us. so what was life like for those who weren't privileged enough to be in here? to tell the truth, it was really difficult. we had a lot of work monday to saturday and then sundays. volunteer work. food was very difficult. so here they were very privileged about that. and outside, we're at the starvation point. one remaining monument here is the

under one of the most repressive regimes in the world, led by the communist dictatorship of enver hoxha