[1] After World War II, Albania as part of the Eastern Bloc, was governed by a Communist regime led by Enver Hoxha.

Communist Albania was one of the last surviving Stalinist regimes worldwide,[2] in which press remained under tight dictatorial control until the collapse of the Eastern Bloc political class.

[1] In 1956 Laiko Vima started to host a literary page, initially edited by Panos Tsoukas, who was an active member of the Party of Labour.

[7] In 1970, after 25 years of circulation, the newspaper was awarded by Enver Hoxha as having played a major role in the revolutionary education of the Greek minority.

[8] In early 1991, following the fall of the communist regime and liberalization in Albania,[9] Laiko Vima continued to be published but now as a private newspaper owned by local Greeks in Gjirokastër.