Saint-Raphaël's right-wing mayor, no stranger to media stunts, has vowed to 'put an end to the lies about the reality of communist totalitarianism.' In response, the French Communist Party and other left-wing groups denounced the 'revisionism of history.'
Communists in Italy never held state power…
The PCI was official opposition in the '70s and ran the local governments of most of Italy’s large cities.