“I am a marxist, a leninist and I don't even consider disagreeable Stalin, who saved us from Hitler, more than the United States.”

—  Gianni Vattimo

"I do not vote for Bresso even under torture" http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/non-voto-bresso-nemmeno-sotto-tortura.html, Februry 21, 2010.

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