Greatest National Figure

[Byzantine Prince]

I heard this second hand from a mature student a couple of years ago.

Anyway, during his first degree, in the 80s, he knew archaeology students who were working in the eastern Med.
Apparently they got to be buddy buddy with some Albanian sailors. Albanians had apparently been told that the rest of the world had been destroyed in a nuclear holocaust and that Albania was the only place left on Earth. Is that really how isolated it got that many Albanians could believe that?

Is that true or was that guy speaking crap?

Sure there was a lot of ignorance in the lower classes, but that was done on purpose, as in the greater good. There wasn't even roads in some remote places otherwise they would know better, what with radio having led zeppelin and thaters showing Italian movies.

It's actually a lot like the Spartans weren't allowed to know how other people lived in order to not be influenced to change.

[Taffy_is_a_Taff]

that's excellent.
It just makes me want my own totalitarian state even more.