Meloni’s reference to Togliatti is welcome, among so much rhetoric on Liberation

The name of Palmiro Togliatti in the mouth of Giorgia Meloni (Corriere, today’s letter on April 25) makes an impression. Togliatti was the head of the Italian communists and a collaborator of Stalin in Moscow in the very hard years of the darkest Stalinism. Isolated and excluded from the constitutional arc, but tolerated in the democratic and parliamentary system despite the “transitional provision” against the reconstitution of the dissolved fascist party, the missini of the time, veterans of Mussolini’s Social Republic and distant ancestors of Meloni, detested Togliatti as the absolute symbolic enemy. When he suffered a stroke and fell in agony at Artek, a pioneer camp in Yalta, in the then Soviet Crimea and now occupied by Putin’s Russians, it was in the summer of 1964, the MSI newspaper, Il Secolo d’Italia, he titled it like this: “TOGLIATTI DEAD IN RUSSIA, IN HIS HOMELAND”.