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keywords:
Civil war – Cossacks-1917 Revolution - Red Army – execution –
Denikin – Kropoktin – Bolsheviks- World War II - Italian
prisoners in USSR - People's commissioner - school of reeducation -
Leonid Breznev – Togliatti – Robotti - D’Onofrio -
Lux hotel– Alba magazine –
Italy – Young Communists Union.
synthesis:
Civil War – cossacks vs Red army – execution and torture – riots –
Denikin's Army – division between white and red cossacks– Stories of
his aunt Aniuta tortured by cossacks – cossacks' retreat– stories of
the village of Romanovsky – Kropoktin revolutionary– schooling – his
job at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Consul in Italy – World War
II – at the front with Leonid Breznev against the Germans and the
Italians – meeting with Togliatti at the Lux hotel-
publishing Alba magazine and collaboration with D'Onofrio and
Togliatti – work in the antifascist school – italian soldier's in the
reeducation school – meeting Robotti – work in the newspaper Moscow
News – his personal stories: the marriage, his daughter Stella,
retirement, the memories and relationships with Italy – interview for
Repubblica on Togliatti – the end of the USSR. Family photos –
fotos on the press offices of the Alba magazine.
subject biography:
Born on 1903 at Romanovsky in the region of Kuban, in Russia's
southern part. Goes to high school, then studies for two years in the
train conducting school.
Becomes a militant for the <young Communist's Union. In 1926 goes to
Moscow and studies International Rigths. Begins working for the
Foreign Affaris Ministry. Learns how to speak Italian and for 2 years
he is a Consul In Italy at Genoa. Once called to go back to
Moscow, he is in charge of the Politics Office overseeing the
"re-education" of Italian Officials prisoners at the Soviet camps.
In World War II he has been also in Crimea for special security
services together with Leonid
Breznev. At Moscow he gets to meet Togliatti in the mythical
Lux Hotel, the hotel where many
international communist leaders have lived.
Along with D’Onofrio, he publishes the Alba magazine,
controlled by the Italian Communists at the Cominter. Died in 2002 at
Moscow. |
