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Luigi Longo (15 March 1900 – 16 October 1980), also known as Gallo, was an Italian communist politician and general secretary of the Italian Communist Party from 1964 to 1972. He was also the first foreigner to be awarded an Order of Lenin.
May 7, 2024 · Luigi Longo was an Italian communist leader, who served as general secretary (1964–72) of the Italian Communist Party (PCI). A founding member of the PCI, Longo struggled against Italian fascism until Benito Mussolini’s ban on political parties forced him into exile.
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Luigi Longo, noto anche con lo pseudonimo di Gallo (Fubine, 15 marzo 1900 – Roma, 16 ottobre 1980), è stato un politico e antifascista italiano, segretario generale del Partito Comunista Italiano dal 1964 al 1972.
According to Leo Valiani, the Action Party representative on the CLNAI, the decision to execute Mussolini was taken on the night of 27/28 April by a group acting on behalf of the CLNAI comprising himself, Sandro Pertini, and the communists Emilio Sereni and Luigi Longo.
Luigi Longo (lōōē´jē lông´gō), 1900–1980, Italian political leader. He was a founder of the Italian Communist party in 1921. In the Spanish civil war he served as inspector-general of the international brigades and fought personally against Benito Mussolini's troops at Guadalajara.
The Italian Communist Party ( Italian: Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI) was a communist and democratic socialist political party in Italy.
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This essay reconstructs Luigi Longo's itinerary as an emblematic one: Longo knozn as «Gallo» zas among the top leaders in the Italian Communist Party, from the line of «social fascism» and...
