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...Comrades, for only 27 traitors you will not sell your souls to the Americans," he said. This was hardly an answer to a rugged young peasant named Matteo Pistillo, nicknamed Spaccatutto (worldbeater) and long known for his unswerving devotion to the Communist cause. "All right," he cried, "but when will Palmiro become our Premier? It may be true what the comrade said, but it is still truer that today I see the land reform." Pistillo had heard of other defections from the Communist Party in southern Italy. By last month the reform had given farms to 146 families around...
Last week Matteo Pistillo the world-beater led 431 of his comrades into San Severo's municipal theater, and there, before Christian Democratic Party workers who could not quite believe it, had them pile their Communist Party cards on the table and sign up as members of the Christian Democratic Party. "Friends, there are no more traitors here," announced the worldbeater. "We free men are choosing the way of justice." It was the biggest mass defection from Italy's Communist Party (the best-entrenched in Western Europe) since...
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