Vittorio Vidali
Vittorio Vidali (27 September 1900 – 9 November 1983), also known as
Vittorio Vidale,
Enea Sormenti,
Jacobo Hurwitz Zender,
Carlos Contreras, and "Comandante Carlos", was an Italian
communist. After being expelled from Italy with the rise of
Fascist Benito Mussolini, he went to
Moscow, where he became an operative for the Soviet
Comintern. He was exiled to Mexico, where he was implicated in assassination attempts of Cuban communist
Julio Mella and Russian revolutionary
Leon Trotsky. Later Vidali was active in other locations, finally leading the new communist party in the
Free Territory of Trieste beginning in 1947 after World War II. He later represented the community in Parliament after it was annexed by Italy.
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