"But watching those kids cheering for Ho Chi Minh's China and Mao, and spitting on the American flag, I wondered: what do they know about China? And do they know what communism, which they like so much, is? I had been to Poland in 1956 and to Czechoslovakia the following year. I would have liked to take those students on a trip there to show them up close what they were peddling as the dictatorship of the proletariat."
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As quoted in Quella finta rivoluzione è uno smash steccato, ilgiornale.it (March 21, 2008)
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Nicola Pietrangeli
1933 – 2025
Nicola Chirinsky Pietrangeli (born Chirinsky; 1933 – 2025) was an Italian tennis player. He won two singles titles at the French Championships.
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