How was life in Albania under Hoxha's regime? Also I want to find some sources on gun ownership but I haven't found any, I asked AI but it's probably biased. There isn't much information about socialist Albania in general compared to the USSR
I mostly just have anecdotes to offer, but for the most part it wasn't particularly good or bad. The ethnic and religious policies were harsh, to the point where ethnic minorities had to be careful to only speak Albanian near anybody from the government and there was extensive anti-religious propaganda. It took some time for religion to be killed, however. After WW2, Hoxha forced through a "truce" between different religious groups that banned religious schools and the recruiting of new holy men until the 60's, when religion was banned altogether. My grandmother's sister says she can remember when the church in her village was blown up, in '68 iirc.
Economically things were in some ways better, some ways worse than the USSR. Food shortages weren't very common until the final days of socialism. There wasn't much variety in what you could buy and meat/eggs were somewhat of a luxury, but no famine or anything like that. Interestingly enough, from what I heard, there weren't collective farms either. The agricultural situation was dominated by Sovkhoz rather than Kolkhoz. Class mobility was rather high, I think most of the population of provincial towns now have had their families move there from the villages during Enver's time.
>Also I want to find some sources on gun ownership but I haven't found any.
I don't have much idea of that either. A lot of people were part of the military in one form or another but I haven't heard anything more than a story about people either owning private arms or being denied private arms, save for the government disarming some villages in Northern Albania for being engaged in right-wing terrorism both before and after the partisans consolidated power.