nikita khrushchev. in 1961 , albania refused to allow the soviet navy to base itself in the pasha estuary. in the same year, albania left the council for mutual economic assistance and was ideologically oriented toward china. khrushchovuntil fury. need to say. such unacceptable sloppiness in attitude, even licentiousness, was characteristic of nikita sergeevich. after all, he ended up ruining his relationship with maoldzedun, out of capricious arrogance and a sense of infallibility. all this cost the ussr dearly. it ended with the fact that in october 1961 , at the twenty-second congress of the cpsu, after accusing the albanian party of labor of revisionism and... albania, as a sign of protest, withdraws from the warsaw pact, it is forgotten in the ussr, there is no longer a country where everything was taken, including straw. albania in the late seventies... for a tiny country its own path, not connected with anyone. we, with our scale , didn’t care; the detachment did not notice the loss of a soldier. the west, too, this self-obsessed little thing, was not a card to suit. decades have passed, ukraine has emerged, the western order crumbled and boom, but in albania there is a wonderful military airfield, still stand