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Terrorism in Italy from 1945 till today

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Terrorism in Italy from 1945 till today refers to one specific situation of the politics situation in Italy from the revive of the democracy in Italy till today.

Giovanni Pellegrino, for more years President of the Italian Parliament Commission about Terrorism and the greater expert about terrorism in Italy, came to opinion that in Italy there was a continue low intensity civil war, from 1945 till today between West and Eastern Europe (between democracy and communism) that peaked in 1945-1949 right after World War II.
With the writer Giovanni Fasanella he wrote a book, who explicate his opinion about the more as 60 years long low intensity civil war in Italy.[1]

This book try to esplicate the specific situation in Italy, different from other countries in Europe.
Two countries in Europe have a similar situation about the politics engagement, but they have precise cause, not equal for Italy:

  1. Spain with the Basque Region ethnic conflict and
  2. Ireland with a long ethnic conflict and religion-political conflict.

First step - the years 1945-1949

The count of victim of this time in not sure. The general secretary of PCI (Partito Comunista Italiano), Palmiro Togliatti, at may 31 1945, had a meeting with Mikhail Kostylev, Soviet-Union Ambassador in Italy. The ambassador wrote to Foreign office in Moskow a relation about the meeting.
The relation was found in the Central Archive in Moskow.
The victim count from end of World War II in Europe to may 31st 1945 was calculated about 50.000.[2]

Second step - the years 1949-1974

In this years the communist party have a army apparatus, know from secret services from Italy and from Nato.

About exist enough documentation. In this step have less victims, the war was much more a war in being as a war effective. In Italy Wikipedia described at Apparato paramilitare del PCI.

This step in know is well know. Was a time very dangerous in Italy. More important politics was killed. The more famous was Aldo Moro

Fourth step - from Years of lead (Italy) (1969-1989)- till today

The civil war have less victims but restricted to some consultant of the government. The victims was from left and from right politics party. They was normally consultant about the reform of law of labur.

The book

  1. The book have one introduction, 11 chapters, one analitic index, one book index.
  2. The indroducion : "Una storia non conoscibile" based about a not knowable History.
  3. 1.Chapter : "La Volante rossa", about the communist terrorism after the II Wold War.
  4. 2.Chapter : "Atlantici d'Italia", about structures in Italy favorable to Atlantic politic.
  5. 3.Chapter : "Il compromesso democratico", about one agreement between Communists and Democrats.
  6. 4.Chapter : "La rottura dell'equilibrio", about the crisis of the agreement.
  7. 5.Chapter : "La guerra civile a bassa intensita", about the low intensity civil war.
  8. 6.Chapter : "Moro e Berlinguer", about the two important leaders.
  9. 7.Chapter : "I naufraghi del Titanic", about the old politic class, not looking to the future.

References

  1. ↑ :Giovanni Fasanella, Giovanni Pellegrino, La guerra civile, Editore : BUR Biblioteca Univ. Rizzoli, 2005. ISBN 978-88-17-00630-9
  2. ↑ (Aga-Rossi Elena - Zaslavsky Victor : Togliatti e Stalin. Il PCI e la politica estera staliniana negli archivi di Mosca - Editore: Il Mulino - 2007.)

Bibliography

  • Fasanella Giovanni, Pellegrino Giovanni, La guerra civile, Editore : BUR Biblioteca Univ. Rizzoli, 2005. ISBN 978-88-17-00630-9 - A book about the more as 60 years long low intensity civil war in Italy.
  • Aga-Rossi Elena - Zaslavsky Victor : Togliatti e Stalin. Il PCI e la politica estera staliniana negli archivi di Mosca - Editore: Il Mulino - 2007.

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