"Once, several years ago, Indro Montanelli, expressing his disgust at the softness and weakness of Christian Democracy, which softened, incorporated, exhausted and ultimately neutralised any opposition, depriving it of all satisfaction and dignity, showed me a photograph, set in a small silver frame, which he kept, like a a holy card, as others do with pictures of their mother or wife and children, on his desk at Il Giornale. To my surprise, I saw that it was Stalin. “It would have been fun to fight him,” he said."