Warum in der Erde Albanien in der Zwischenkriegszeit (1919-1939) ist so unbekannt?! Ich habe seit langer Zeit die Nationen der Zwischenkriegszeit untersucht und Albanien ist bei weitem das unbekannte Land, das ich gesehen habe. Ich weiß buchstäblich mehr über Tannu Tuva als Albanien … Was ist der Grund dafür?
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Von PolynesianKiwi
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Most of historical papers are in albanian
Our ‚king‘ was too busy slurping up the itlians and slavs,he had signed so much treaties whith the italians,it basiclly made us an italian puppet,after which the italians invaded,they planned to size albania whithin 24 hours but needed 5 days do to the armed resistance they faced,the king being the traitor he is esscaped and fled,while also taking evrey single amount of gold albania had and not letting the civilians get armed
No one cared about Albania during that time to write anything about it. The surrounding nations, especially Greece, had strong diplomatic ties with either the west or with Russia and got all the attention. Meanwhile the only countries which had any diplomatic interest in Albania at the time were
1. The Austro Hungarians who wanted to use Albania as a counterbalance to Serbia, but were too busy licking their wounds.
2. Surrounding nations who had territorial ambition on Albania and were definitely not going to do us any favors
Albanians themselves were also too unstable or illiterate at the time to write anything down. Whatever we did write down is in albanian in an archive no one reads because shortly thereafter Hoxha came and he took all the limelight for historians.
Because albania was completely irrelevant during this period. It had political turmoil,people trying to cling to power,there were neighbors trying to interfere and hold as much influence over the already weak state and it had a really weak economy. basically irrelevant in the geopolitical world.
Lots of power struggle between factions and conspiracies to sell Albania to the neighbors.
Read about the War of 1920/War of Vlora. Italy invaded Albania with a considerable armed forces(around 20k troops) and started a war in Vlora. About 4000 Albanian peasants and provisional militia, severely outgunned and underequipped, resisted them for a few months and successfully stopped the Italians troops in taking the area. 2000 Italians died, mostly to disease. The campaign was a humiliating failure that it served as reason to motivate the fascist army in invading Albania 19 years later. The king of Italy withdrew the soldiers, claimed victory in front of other big powers and made sure that no one in Europe ever heard about the conflict, or the Albanian politicians mention it. Even nowadays it is rarely ever spoken about or taught in history books.
The 30s saw King Zog taking full control of the country. Italy managed to conquer the economy(known as soft invasion) of Albania through loans and debt traps diplomacy, urban projects and influence over the government. Then in April 1939 Italy invaded Albania once again, 5 months prior the WW2 erupted. The invasion lasted only a few days and they were able to create a fascist government within a week.
My personal opinion is that Albania during the interwar period improved quite a lot and it was the closest we ever been to a Western society. Compared to nowadays, a hundred years ago we had actual scientific programs, lots of archaeological projects that discovered the oil fields, infrastructure improvements, national revival in music, literature and arts, a government made of highly educated intellectuals, proper urban planning and breaking free from the Turkish/Oriental mentality. Today it seems like we have lost all of that.
During the interwar period we were left in the sidelines as we were the most underdeveloped country in Europe, a new country, and we lacked diplomatic strength. So basically no one was interested in researching about us. But what I would say is that even Albanians themselves don’t know a lot of history about the interwar period. Most of them who think that know something, just know communist propaganda. During the interwar period we had a big potential to head towards a stable statehood, and a good future for us. The other time was after communism fell. We fucked up pretty much both times.