Who was the craziest leader in history? Albania’s first and only king managed to survive dozens of assassination attempts and hundreds of blood feuds. In traditional Albanian culture Blood Feud is the social obligation to kill an offender or a member of their family in order to recapture one’s honor.
King Zog 1st, of Albania, reined from 1928 to 1939, and had his first hassle with death in 1923, when he was Prime Minister of the Albanian government. After refusing to step down after an election he was shot twice in the casket in the Albanian Parliament structure.
Zog was an authoritarian and made adversaries in nearly all political groups in Albania, socialist, Democrats, tenants, and fascist, likewise.
In 1932, one of King Zog’s guards was shot in the reverse of the head three times after been incorrect for the King. Zog apparently drew his fireball and fired back.
Zog came so terrified of being poisoned that he made his ma cover the royal kitchens. Allegedly Zog was the target of over 600 blood feuds. Despite this Zog managed to survive all the assassination attempts on his life, although is was his simulated relationship with fascist Italy that eventually spelled the end of his rein.
While Zog employed Mussolini’s Italy for occasional support, Italian influence grew to great in the fate of the great depression. Zog’s attempt to check Italian control and seek other European abettors, led the Italians to incursion in 1939.
Taking his family and a great deal of gold with him Zog fled Albania Norway to return. He failed in 1961, due his habit of smoking 200 cigarettes a day.
