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1893–1964 Italy
Palmiro Michele Nicola Togliatti (1893 – 1964) was an Italian politician, who led Italy's Communist party for nearly forty years, from 1927 until his death. Born into a middle-class family, Togliatti received an education in law at the University of Turin, later served as an officer and was wounded in World War I, and became a tutor.
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To fight against the left, we must also use the police.
Our Soviet comrades never put really serious and grave matters in writing.
The discussion highlighted a new problem, that private schools are becoming a second state school system.
Bordiga lives peacefully in Italy today as a Trotskyist scoundrel, protected by the police and the fascists, hated by the workers as a traitor should be hated.
At the end of the war, the situation was such that it would not have been difficult for us to seize power and begin building a socialist society. Most of the people would have followed us.
Stalin spread exaggerated and false theories; he was the victim of an almost desperate perspective of endless persecution, of general and continuous mistrust, of suspicion in all directions.
We have come a long way and we are going a long way! Without a doubt! Our goal is to create a society of free and equal people in our country, in which there is no exploitation of men by other men.
(The Vatican) is the most irreconcilable and organised opponent of greater democratic transformation in Italy.
(About Francesco Saverio Nitti) A man of undisputed value and undisputed ability.
Joseph Stalin is a giant of thought, a giant of action. His name will be used to refer to an entire century, perhaps the most dramatic, certainly the most eventful in the arduous and glorious history of humankind.
[...] even in the mane of a noble racehorse, you can always find two or three lice.
(From the commemoration of Stalin on the occasion of his death, delivered in the Chamber of Deputies) Every time a word of peace is spoken, every time an act is performed that can ensure peace, we find Stalin there.
(At the conclusion of the commemoration of Stalin on the occasion of his death, delivered in the Chamber of Deputies) The heroic life of the victorious fighter has come to an end. His cause triumphs. His cause will triumph throughout the world.
(About the PRI) Small mass party.
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