... February municipal vote in Pescara with a ten percent increase in popularity from their previous vote in 1946, adding insult to the democratic cause the Christian Democrats finishing a distant second. This event rang the alarm in the Truman administration that more intervention had to be arranged if their goal of ... campaigns to ensure democratic victory at the polls. The propaganda campaigns that emerged at this time are generally credited with the success the Christian Democrats enjoyed and with the rapid decline of the Popular Democrat Front (PDF) at the April elections. The first on...

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... , the poor must steal from each other in order to survive"." It is also important to remind that elections in 1948 divided Italy in two political parties: popular front and Christian Democracy. Accordingly Bicycle Thieves is not only a realistic film that shows Italian post-war circumstances through Antonio's story, but it is also a film characterised by an acute psychological understanding and ... ...

• Word Count: 1552
• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: Graduate