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Sandro Pertini Quotes

1896–1990 Italy

Alessandro "Sandro" Pertini OMCA (Italian: [(ales)ˈsandro perˈtiːni]; 25 September 1896 – 24 February 1990) was an Italian socialist politician and statesman who served as President of Italy from 1978 to 1985.

Italy
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Socialists

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Men of all political beliefs, friends and adversaries, must today recognise the immense stature of Joseph Stalin. He is a giant of history and his memory will not know sunset.

Speech on the death of Joseph Stalin (1953)

Well, neofascists who once again stand in the shadows and listen, I boast that I ordered the execution of Mussolini, because I and the others did nothing more than sign a death sentence pronounced by the Italian people twenty years earlier.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sandro Pertini (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.