Massimo D'Alema of Italy paraphrased Vladimir Putin's quote about the Soviet Union, and said:
"Whoever wants to restore communism is brainless, whoever doesn't remember it is heartless... and I'm deeply sentimental."
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https://www.politico.com/blogs/politico44/2013/02/obama-meets-napolitano-157141
"Napolitano was a longtime member of the Italian Communist Party, which he joined in 1945 after taking part in the Italian resistance movement, and of its post-Communist democratic socialist and social democratic successors, from the Democratic Party of the Left to the Democrats of the Left. He was a leading member of migliorismo, a reformist, moderate, and modernizing faction on the right-wing of the PCI,[5][6][7] which was inspired by the values of democratic socialism,[8] looked favourably to social democracy, and was interested in revisionist Marxism.[9] First elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1953, he took an assiduous interest in parliamentary life and was president of the Chamber of Deputies from 1992 to 1994. He was Minister of the Interior from 1996 to 1998 during the first Prodi government.[10] A close friend of Henry Kissinger,[11] he was also the first high-ranking leader of a communist party to visit the United States, which he did in 1978."
-Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Napolitano
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https://www.brookings.edu/articles/obamas-visit-to-italy-quiet-but-crucial/
Crucial, for Critical Theory of The Frankfort School
