![]() The Cold War-era Albanian military overall was a blend of different generations (including WWII) of weapons serving alongside one another. (Mosin-Nagant M44s being looted by an Albanian civilian during the 1997 chaos.) (Associated Press photo) (Enver Hoxha, the WWII guerilla who would become Albania’s dictator from 1944 – 1985.) (Albanian-manufactured Mosin-Nagant 91/30 rifle, the final production run of this legendary WWII rifle.) (photo via Armslist website) There a small run of this rifle was made in the early 1960s, a decade and a half after WWII ended and the world (including Albania itself) had already moved on to more modern firearms. The last country to produce new Mosin-Nagants was perhaps the most obscure player in Cold War-era Europe, Albania.
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