Free: A Child and a Country at the End of HistoryFor precocious 11 year old Lea Ypi, Albania's Soviet style socialism held the promise of a preordained future, a guarantee of security among enthusiastic comrades. That is, until she found herself clinging to a stone statue of Joseph Stalin, newly beheaded by student protests. Communism had failed to deliver the promised utopia. One's "biography" class status and other associations long in the past put strict boundaries around one's individual future.