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Canestri, Aldo

 

Date of Event:12/10/01. 

Type of Event: interview with Aldo Canestri.

Length: 01:07:49:26.

 

 

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keywords: Bindo Regazzi - Moscow Radio – propaganda – Odessa's interclub– The Great Purge – Stalin – World War II – Italian Communists at Prague - Lux hotel

synthesis: Father at the Italian Communist Party ("Pcd'I") – transfer to Odessa then to  Moscow – Odessa's interclub – Father works at the Moscow Radio – International School for the sons of the heads of the Party– Lux hotel - history of Amadei – father escapes the repression – homelessness during World War II – return in Italy after WWII – Father works for the Party in Rome– At Prague to help Italian politicians – In ’52: the return to Rome and father's death – family returns to Odessa – death of Stalin – end of the USSR. Photo Aldo Canestri and family – rehabilitation documents of Amadei

subject biography: Born in 1936 at Odessa, where his father Bindo Regazzi, a.k.a.  A.P.Canestri, heads the Italian Club at  Odessa. Canestri gets invited by the Italian Communist Party ("Pcd'I") to create  propaganda at the Interclub. From 1941 to 1944 Aldo and his mother become homeless in  Uzbekistan. In 1944 the family moves to Moscow and lives at the Lux Hotel in Moscow, the hotel  where various international Communist Directors have stayed . After the war, they return to Italy where the father passes away in 1952. The family returns to Odessa. Aldo currently lives in Moscow. 

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