Word: contadini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were costing them votes. While the party's strength held fast in the north, "its greater energy" was making deep inroads into the rural south (and recent small-town elections support this claim). He was especially happy over the party's successful proselytizing of the stubbornly conservative "contadini" (peasants), who have everywhere been the Marxists' highest hurdle: "In population percentage our strongest local federation in Italy is in Siena-in the heart of Tuscany's vineyards and olive groves-and I'm not sure there's even a single factory there...
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