Editing Palmiro Togliatti (section)

=== Soviet criticism ===
Some bourgeois historians claim Stalin wanted Togliatti to fail in Italy because his percentages agreement with Churchill gave Italy to the West. Yet, the Soviets harshly criticized Togliatti for disarming the workers and pursuing bourgeois electoralism.

At the first congress of the [[Cominform]], the Soviets handed the Yugoslavs a bunch of material, prepared by [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]] and [[Zhdanov]], to use for denouncing the Italians and French. <ref name=":0">Bill Bland, The Cominform Fights Revisionism. https://www.marxists.org/archive/bland/x01/cominform-fights-revisionism.pdf</ref> Togliatti was accused of hoping for peaceful parliamentary action and being subservient to the Vatican. <blockquote>[The Cominform representative] began by asserting [the French and Italians] had placed their country at the mercy of American imperialism, first by permitting the resistance forces to be dissolved, then by making one concession after another to the forces of reaction, and finally by tolerating their own exclusion from the government. The two parties had committed their major error when they declared they would never be swayed from the path of parliamentarism. <ref name=":0" /></blockquote>The leaders of the parties were accused of "political and ideological liberalism", and the parties suffered from fear of taking responsibility and lack of revolutionary vigilance. <ref name=":0" />