"Gentlemen, you will all remember the anguished hours we lived through when the Nazi avalanche rolled over the Soviet Union. The Nazi armies already glimpsed the towers of the Kremlin and the peaks of the Caucasus. Well, we felt that if, by damned chance, the Soviet Union collapsed, with the Soviet Union - don't forget this, you who are listening to me - all hopes of a triumph of freedom over the Nazi-fascist dictatorship would have collapsed. At that moment we felt that men of all political persuasions held their breath in the knowledge that their fate was tied to the fate of Stalingrad. And Stalingrad became the Valmy of the October Revolution and offered the astonished world the miracle of a resounding victory, under the leadership of Stalin. Then we understood that from Stalingrad began the victory of democratic weapons against the weapons of barbarism!"
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Sandro Pertini
Alessandro "Sandro" Pertini OMCA (Italian: [(ales)ˈsandro perˈtiːni]; 25 September 1896 – 24 February 1990) was an Italian socialist politician and statesman who served as President of Italy from 1978 to 1985.
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