"It was a crucial negotiation, a truly significant founding act of the Second Republic for understanding what happened in those years and in the years that followed – to understand, step by step, Licio Gelli’s plan, the deals with Berlusconi, and the fact that there was no opposition in this country. Isn’t Matteo Renzi, too, simply the result of this agreement?"
January 1, 1970
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