Communist pyramid at last has a point


An aerial view of the Pyramid of Tirana, in Tirana, Albania. It was built as a bizarre memorial to Albania’s paranoid communist dictator who cut the country off from the rest of the world. Now a brutalist pyramid in the heart of Tirana hopes to become a beacon of the Balkan country’s transformation. — AFP

IT was built as a bizarre memorial to Albania’s paranoid communist dictator who cut the country off from the rest of the world.

Now a brutalist pyramid in the heart of Tirana hopes to become a beacon of the Balkan country’s transformation.

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