"Togliatti is an educated, cultured Stalinist. Unfamiliar with Russian conditions and traditions, for several years he does not see the need to extend the Russian model to the entire communist movement; then he resigns himself to it, but without being completely convinced. It is not that he disputes or repudiates the great Stalinist cuts imposed with “just” and necessary violence; it is that he does not feel the need to add terror to terror, he remains free from persecutory mania, master of his roguish instincts, normal in terms of intelligence. And it is this normality of his in a world deformed by madness or tragedy that makes him appear more democratic than he really is."