Recycled politics
TIRANA (Reuter) - The Albanian government ordered the collected works of the late dictator, Enver Hoxha, and all Communist literature in storehouses to be recycled into paper and cardboard.
The Culture Minister, Dhimiter Anagnosti, said there was no longer a market for such literature and storing more than 1,000 tonnes of it had left the state-run book industry with debts of 50m leks ( pounds 350,000).
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