In an article I think on the RPM website, it said that the late dictator Hoxha prohibited scuba gear, claiming it was cryptocapitalist or some such crap -- but he was worried that people would swim underwater to flee his dictatorship. One unintended consequence of the policy is that the many wrecks were never found until now.
In hindsight I regret that Hoxha’s health didn’t permit him to suffer Ceausescu’s fate. The leftist morons who today advocate “true” or “pure” socialism ought to have to see what those same ideas did to Albania, which at one time was the poorest nation in Europe. I think that distinction may have been passed to Belorussia, another socialist hell hole.