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keywords:
Ottavio Pastore - Lux hotel –
Togliatti – The Great Purge – Peluso – Robotti – Stalin – Gramsci -
Italian section of the Moscow Radio.
synthesis:
parents and arrival in the USSR – life in the
Lux Hotel with Togliatti and other international Communist leaders
– father's escape (Ottavio Pastore) – Period during the Great
Purge – recollections of Peluso – Robotti's arrest – life of young
Italian Communists – Italian Immigrant's Club at Moscow –
Italian section of the Moscow Radio – meeting with father in 1951 –
Togliatti during the Stalinian Terror – Stalin – recollections of
Gramsci – Togliatti vs Gramsci – letters from Ottavio Pastore to
his wife. Photos.
subject
biography:
daughter of Ottavio Pastore, director of Italian Communist Party ("Pcd'I").
The whole family transfers to Moscow and lives in the
Lux Hotel (the
hotel
where international communist leaders lived).
The father leaves Moscow and escapes to Paris at the beginning of the
Great Purge and Mirella Pastore meets him again only many years after,
in 1951. She is a regular at the Italian Immigrant's Club and
works for the italian section of the Moscow Radio. Currently she lives in
Moscow. |
