"Inside Man"/Communism reference

[The Living Red]

I saw the film 'The Inside Man' last night, which was an alright film but something caught my ear.

At one point there's this woman from Albania in it who complains "I had to listen to this shit in school...'Communism is great, capitalism is evil...Marx, Lenin, ' blah, blah, blah."

I hate to nit-pick but I was just wondering how historically accurate that comment was. Did the Albanian communist government uphold the teachings of Lenin? I thought they were anti-Soviet?

Please add any thoughts (and you can move the thread to History if you want, I'm not bothered.)

[Comrade Marcel]

Albania would have been anti-Soviet revisionism; pro-Stalin. Hoxha also called Mao revisionist.

[Tickin' TimebOmb John]

i liked this film, always down with wot spike lee's up to.
as for the communist thing, marcel's right, Albania was pro-soviet during stalinist rule, but then following his death became aligned with mao, and split from the soviet union, so i think its fair to say that lenin might have been embraced, if from a Stalinist perspective.

[YKTMX]

I thought that bit was hilarious!

The speeches of Enver Hoxha on an I-Pod :lol:

How pomo...