Giuseppe Dozza (29 November 1901 – 28 December 1974) was an Italian politician, the first

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after the end of

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Biography

The resistance

One of the founders of the

Communist Party of Italy The Italian Communist Party ( it, Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI) was a communist political party in Italy. The PCI was founded as ''Communist Party of Italy'' on 21 January 1921 in Livorno by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). ...

, Dozza was immediately persecuted by the

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and expatriated in

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in the 1920s. He returned to Italy only in 1943 to participate in the

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in his hometown

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. The

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