The only good thing about Enver Hoxha’s rule in Albania, is that he pretty much killed off Islam in Albania (Christianity too, for that matter). Kosovo, on the other hand, was under Tito, who was a bit more tolerant of religion, so Islam still flourishes there.
His motivation was to use religion as a population control mechanism, “tolerance” is a term that should be used rather loosely when referring to Tito.
His only reason for tolerating Albanian criminality was to prevent Serbs for returning to Kosovo after WWII. Clever little bugger that Tito...
I agree but I think that it was a lot bigger than that.
Post WWII, Tito wanted to be "The Stalin of the Balkans", which is why he broke with Stalin to begin with, not that he was any the less communist.
Tito supplied the communist side of the Greek civil war. Greek children were taken to and through Yugoslavia by the communists during their civil war as hostages, because Tito wanted power over Greece. Tito gave the Kosovo Albanians schools and institutions in the their language because Tito hoped to get a grip over Albania too, but Enver Hoxha beat him to the punch. It's also one reason why Hoxha embraced Chinese communism in Albania because he never trusted Stalin or Tito not to make a deal to sell him out and make Tito the big boss. Tito was still ready on stand by with his little Kosovo Albanian army if Hoxha ever became vulnerable. But Tito just never lived long enough to see it, and by the time it happened, the Soviet Union was in it's death throws and a new game was in town.
Overall, Tito's way of managing the ethnicities in Yugoslavia was to play them off of one another so that none became independent enough to function on their own. The Slovenes were allowed to be the most capitalistic and economically successful in one sense, but Tito then funneled that money through Belgrade to support the Albanians in Kosovo. Tito exploited the Muslim countries of the non-aligned movement for weapons commerce and allowed them to build mosques in Bosnia. But he kept a tight grip over the Serbs because they were the largest minority in the country and the greatest threat, having had a history of parliamentary democracy and of rebellion. Serbs were forced to declare loyalty to Yugoslavia, not Serbia, while everyone else was fighting for their own. Serbs were forced to tow the communist party line when Slovenia could have a McDonald's and it would still be considered "communist enough". Tito believed in the adage, "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer still." Serbs were always Tito's most realistic potential enemy and he knew it.