In the video, we see the example of Albania's Hoxha, who led the Party of Labor of Albania as a single strongman. Primarily Hoxha used fearmongering as his primary tactic for legitmation and we can see this extensively in the video. Hoxha in his regime spoke frequently of the threat of the West, of imminent nuclear warfare, and the threat of land invasion. In the eyes of Albanians, this fear was somewhat justified, as to prior the takeover of the Communsits, Albania was occupied by the Axis Powers, and so the fear of foreign invasion was relatively recent in their collective memory.

What is so peculiar about the Albania case, however, is the extent to which Hoxha had civil society engage in this "constant paranoia." Unlike other legitimation strategies in East Asia, where civil society is fed constant media attention on the Communist Party, Hoxha quite literally had civil society involved in the construction of nuclear bunkers and wartime industry. One can interpret this as a sort of "first-hand legitimation" where civil society is forced to endure the narrative being fed to it. Civil society is thus forced to help Hoxha replicate his narrative of paranoia.