Palmiro
Togliatti
was
born in Italy in 1893. He joined the Italian
Socialist Party in 1914 and joined with Antonio
Gramsci
to form the Italian Communist Party in 1921.
When Benito
Mussolini
came to power Togliatti was forced to flee Italy. He lived abroad
and was a member of the Comintern that
organized the communists fighting in the Spanish
Civil War.
Togliatti
returned to Italy after it surrendered
to the Allies and joined the government formed by Invanoe
Bonomi. He stayed in the coalition government until 1947. Palmiro
Togliatti remained the head of the Italian Communist Party until his
death in 1964.
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