As statues around the world are toppled and beheaded, some residents of Labinot Mal, a village nestled in the mountains of central Albania, keep the last statue of the late communist dictator Enver Hoxha intact. The bronze effigy of more than two metres is kept in a peasant house where Hoxha had installed the headquarters of the National Liberation Army in 1943, which was fighting against the Italian fascist and German nazi occupiers. Now dilapidated, this house had been transformed by the communist regime into a military museum. The statue was unveiled there in 1968, 17 years before Hoxha's death.
