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According to the British daily “The Guardian”, then Hoxha ruled with the Stalinist dictatorship, in the country that had turned into one of the most isolated and depressed in the world.

In the era of Communism, the entire area around Hoxha's home was isolated from police and secret agents. Known as the bloc, the area functioned as a kind of wallless Kremlin in the heart of Tirana, reserved for the party elite and their families.

Now, writes “Gardian”, the bloc is one of Tirana's most frequent areas, filled with bars, nightclubs and restaurants. Among them is Hoxha's ghost home, untouched and closed to the public.

Modern-day Albania, writes “Gardian”, seeks EU membership after many years in which people have preferred to forget the past.

But now, Albanians are trying to face the dictator's legacy and are thinking of how to open the dictator's house for the public. Within it, the walls are decorated with socialist art, many rooms are equipped with old Albanian TVs, the doors of the dictator's bedroom have clothing that isolates sounds while in the basement, there is a pool and a secret door leading to a tunnel in which Hoxha “the parananojac” could leave in case of attack.

Prime Minister Edi Rama, underline “Guardian” is long thinking about what to do with the house, since it fears it would be equally inappropriate to keep in the current state and complete destruction, writes TCh.

It's hard to find a good solution when the past is still there, but you serve the future”, he says.

“Gardian” writes that other buildings that symbolize Hoxha's regime have been revised for public use, including the central security offices, which have now been converted into museums. And the bunkers. Now, the current plans, meanwhile, are to transform the pyramid built in the late 1980s as a museum for the late dictator. But despite big plans, there is not yet a monument worthy of Hoxha's victims, writes Guardian.