Word: sandro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...merger, the political tides in Italy and the rest of Europe had been running against the Communists. Embarrassed by Russia's insistence that Italy must give up Trieste, Togliatti had received the indignant resignations of 8,000 Roman Communists in a single day. The Socialists had appointed Sandro Pertini to conduct their negotiations with the Reds, and since Pertini was known as a rabid antiCommunist, most Western observers complacently assumed that close Socialist-Communist collaboration was a dead duck...