We are dismayed at this death because of the void that Joseph Stalin leaves in his people and in humanity as a whole. Gentlemen, if you abandon your … - Sandro Pertini

Well, neofascists who once again stand in the shadows and listen, I boast that I ordered the execution of Mussolini, because I and the others did nothing more than sign a death sentence pronounced by the Italian people twenty years earlier.

He ended his day well, though too early for us and for the fate of the world. His last word was one of peace. Well, at this hour that is so sad for us, we hope that this call for peace, which reflects the will of all the workers of the earth, will not fall on deaf ears, but will be taken up by all those who hold the fate of peoples in their hands.

Gentlemen, you will all remember the anguished hours we lived through when the Nazi avalanche rolled over the Soviet Union. The Nazi armies already glimpsed the towers of the Kremlin and the peaks of the Caucasus. Well, we felt that if, by damned chance, the Soviet Union collapsed, with the Soviet Union - don't forget this, you who are listening to me - all hopes of a triumph of freedom over the Nazi-fascist dictatorship would have collapsed. At that moment we felt that men of all political persuasions held their breath in the knowledge that their fate was tied to the fate of Stalingrad. And Stalingrad became the Valmy of the October Revolution and offered the astonished world the miracle of a resounding victory, under the leadership of Stalin. Then we understood that from Stalingrad began the victory of democratic weapons against the weapons of barbarism!