Word: comintern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Palmiro Togliatti, son of a poor Genoese bookkeeper, who fled from Fascism in 1926; between foreign assignments for the Comintern (which included organizing the Garibaldi Brigade in the Spanish Civil War), he studied revolutionary strategy and wrote polemics in Moscow. He thrice escaped death (he was condemned to death by Mussolini, stabbed in Spain, shot at in 1948 in Rome). Shortly after U.S. troops invaded Southern Italy he flew to Naples, became leader of Italy's 2,283,000 Communists...
Walter Ulbricht, once a Leipzig woodworker, who became a Comintern agent during the Spanish Civil War, returned from Moscow to Germany with the Red army after the war, became Politburo member of Eastern Germany's Socialist Unity Party. Last month he stepped into the acting premiership of Eastern Germany when Premier Otto Grotewohl was reported ill. In imitation of Lenin, Ulbricht wears a trowel-like beard...
Johann Koplenig, onetime shoemaker, served on the Comintern's Executive Committee, is now chairman of the Austrian Communist Party...