May 12 • 09:33 UTC 🇮🇹 Italy Corriere della Sera

Achille Occhetto: "Three PCI leaders wanted to ask Gorbachev to excommunicate me, but he refused"

Former communist secretary Achille Occhetto reveals that three leaders from the Italian Communist Party intended to ask Gorbachev to excommunicate him during a 1989 meeting, but Gorbachev declined the request.

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