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...anti-Fascist during the Mussolini era. Berlinguer studied law before he decided "to fight for the profound transformation of all social assets" and at 21 joined the Communist Party. Jailed by the Fascists for activities in Sardinia, Berlinguer came to the attention of the party's leader, Palmiro Togliatti...
...range of Soviet society. Since 1950, more than 1,800,000 Komsomoltsy have given up summer vacations and sometimes whole school years to work on development projects in Siberia and the Soviet Far East. Komsomoltsy helped build the Bratsk hydroelectric station, are now participating in the construction of the Togliatti auto plant, which is scheduled to produce 600,000 Soviet versions of the Italian Fiat a year. Some of the youngsters go out of ideological zeal, some simply for the adventure of getting away from home. But for most, subtle and highly persuasive pressures are at work, primarily choice...
...need for such temporary work in industry is diminishing: an increasingly sophisticated technology has cut down the need for unskilled labor with the result that at projects like the Togliatti plant, Komsomol participation is little more than symbolic. But millions are still needed in the back-breaking work of the annual harvests. Beyond such extracurricular efforts, Komsomoltsy have a voice in their own student affairs and maintain their own job placement service...
TRADE Italy to Russia In the Volga town of Togliatti, Fiat is building a plant for the Russians that will eventually turn out 600,000 cars a year. Last month Pirelli concluded a $50 million deal to make rubber parts for the Fiats. Italy's state-owned ENI petroleum company is ready to build a pipeline from the Ukraine to Trieste. Olivetti is in the midst of talks to supply the Soviet Union with office equipment. Almost weekly some new deal is announced in which an Italian company snaps up a contract in Russia. The man most responsible...
Moving Out. Last August, after seven years of negotiations and 50 visits by Soviet delegations, Fiat concluded a contract to build an $880 million auto factory in Togliatti, a Soviet city re-named in memory of Italy's late Communist Party boss. When it is completed in 1972, the plant will produce 600,000 cars a year, and quadruple Russia's auto production. Italy's giant, government-owned petrochemical complex, E.N.I., is negotiating with the Russians to build a natural-gas pipeline from Lvov in the western Ukraine to Trieste to replace the fuel from its nearly...