Soviet and East European technical advisers take…

Soviet and East European technical advisers take up residence in Albania, and the Soviet Union also sends Albania military advisers and builds a submarine installation on Sazan Island.

After the Soviet-Yugoslav split, Albania and Bulgaria were the only countries the Soviet Union could use to funnel war matériel to the communists fighting in Greece.

What little strategic value Albania now offers the Soviet Union, however, will gradually shrink as nuclear arms technology develops.

Albania's rulers, anxious to pay homage to Stalin, implement new elements of the Stalinist economic system.

In 1949, Albania adopts the basic elements of the Soviet fiscal system, under which state enterprises pay direct contributions to the treasury from their profits and keep only a share authorized for self-financed investments and other purposes.