Catalogue Number
NMLH.2022.134.22
Object Name
Poster
Title
Il rapporto kruscev e l'invasione russa in ungheria
People
Pietro Nenni
Date
1991
Description
This poster is the 22nd in a collection of posters about Pietro Nenni, an Italian socialist politician who was also the national secretary of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and a lifetime Senator since 1970. This poster is titled "The Krushev Report and the Russian invasion of Hungary" and features photographs of Nenni at a rally with text underneath reading:"In June 1956, regarding the Khrushchev report at the 20th Congress of the CPSU, Nenni published in Mondo Operaio: 'The shameful facts of Khrushchev's secret report ' and 'The first negative balance of de-Stalinization'. 26th August of the same year he meets in Pralognan with Saragat for an examination of the political situation and to consider the possibility of a rapprochement of the PSDI and the PSI on common perspectives of struggle. On 6 October PSI and PCI signed a declaration limiting the collaboration of the two parties to forms of consultation rather than unity of action. Other sensational and worrying news comes from "real" socialism: in October Hungary is invaded militarily by the USSR, causing crisis and bewilderment everywhere On October 28, Nenni comments in Avanti! the Soviet occupation with the article 'The pure current and the dirty foam': "The workers' movement had never experienced a tragedy comparable to the Hungarian one, to the one that in different forms smolders in all the countries of Eastern Europe , even with silences which are no less anguished than the outbursts of popular anger". On 10 February 1957, at the 32nd national congress in Venice, Nenni carried out the political report based on "socialist autonomy". In the elections of May 24, 1958, he was re-elected as a deputy and was confirmed as secretary also in the subsequent 33rd National Congress of the PSI in Naples, in January 1959. On 12 July 1960, after the fall of the DC monocolore chaired by Tambroni and supported by the MSI, a turning point was imposed. Even the DC, despite hesitation, is showing every day more convinced of the urgency of a change. In the Chamber, Nenni explains the reasons for the socialist abstention from the government chaired by Fanfani, known as the "parallel convergences"" (text translated from Italian)
