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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.

— Sandro Pertini Speech on the death of Joseph Stalin (1953)

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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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