... communists was the fact that Italian Premier Alcide de Gasperi was wrought with stress over how desperate Italy was in need of financial aid in the wake of the devastation brought on by the effects of the second world war. The United States used this angle as their "trump card- to pressure de Gasperi into weeding out leftist opposition in his ... the Soviet Union and Moscow had the same resources allotted to them, would this world be different today? Would the western world have followed suit? That question is one that I am thankful does not need to be answered....

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