The Anger of Compassion

Land of 'Unique Chronic Communism'

That's A.A. Gill's phrase, from his TimesOnline article, "The land that time forgot:"

It is a tragic place. But just at the point in the story where you should be sobbing, you can berely restrain the sniggers....The capital, Tirana, is a rare place, blessed with both fascist and communist architecture. The competing totalitarian buildings strut cheek by cheek down the potholed roads, like an authoritarian tango in marble and concrete.