Talk:1948 Italian general election

Nice comprimise
User:Intangible

Re: your edit here. Nice comprimise, and a great way to avoid a needless revert war. Thanks.

If it is okay with you, if no one verifies this paragraph in a week (Sunday July 23):


 * Perhaps because of this campaign, the Christian Democrats won the 1948 election with 48 percent of the vote, while the FDP only received 31 percent. A leftist coalition would not win a general election for the next 48 years, till 1996. This was due to the Italians' traditional bend for conservatism, on one side, but even more importantly to the Cold War, with the US closely eyeing Italy, and often heavily meddling in its politics, not always by licit means (see: strategy of tension), after their desire to maintain a vital NATO presence amidst the Mediterranean.

We can delete it permanently from the page.

Nice job, I appreciate your work on this wikipage. Best wishes. Travb (talk) 21:46, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Well the Blum books are more about post-war elections in Italy. Blum himself was not there in 1948. Intangible 22:16, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Well the Blum books are more about post-war elections in Italy. Valid point. But why are we talking about Blum?  Is he mentioned in the article? I don't recall. Travb (talk) 22:21, 16 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Blum himself was not there in 1948. Huh? Why does that matter? A lot of historians write books on events which happen hundreds of years ago, and of course they were never there. I don't understand why this is relevant. Travb (talk) 22:21, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Re Italian general election, 1948
Well the last piece might be from the William Blum books, but I do not consider that to be a good reference for the 1948 election (since he is citing 2nd hand sources). He might be more justifiably cited in the Elections in Italy article. I like the CNN article though. There is some stuff in there that can balance the article up, such as the funding of PCI with money from the Soviet Union. Intangible 22:07, 16 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Is the CNN article quoting 2nd hand sources?


 * I sense some underlying bias in your words. There is nothing wrong with bias, mind you, especially since everyone on this planet is biased, including myself.  I am a far left liberal, which I doubt you are. That doesn't mean that we together cannot work to build the best damn page on the Italian general election, 1948 that there is anywhere on the internet.  In fact, your biases and my biases may compliment each other to make this article even better.


 * You seem to know much, much more about this subject then I know, nor am interested to know about it. Currently, I have a passing, casual interest in this subject.  Of course, that may change though.


 * I look forward to learning more about the subject from your edits. Thanks for your hard work on this wikipage. Travb (talk) 22:21, 16 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Ah, Blum, now I see why you bring him up, I added that reference to Blum months ago. Travb (talk) 22:42, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

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 * The use is fair but without an accompanying photo from "the other side" it's POV to the tune of the proverbial 1,000 words. We need another photo to balance this one.  davidwr/  (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  01:41, 10 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I disagree with your statement that the image is POV. I chose the image because, in my opinion, it shows the sometimes hysterical way media at the time reported on the perceived “communist threat”. That said, an image that shows the other side would improve the article. - Mafia Expert (talk) 11:06, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

CIA's operative about funds to PCd'I
I corrected the quotation and the introduction to CIA's operative, since it was referring to the old PCd'I (partito comunista d'italia) and not to PCI (Partito comunista italiano). Since this was nother party, I think here it's out of place. Better would be providing another evidence about funding by USSR to PCI. The whole part should be eventually moved to the PCd'I article. --Desyman44 (talk) 15:05, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

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Issue with the map in the infobox
While I agree that the current map File:1948 Italian general election - Results.svg is more detailed, it's actually also wrong. In particular, in the Marche region the DC won, not the PCI, see the Interior Ministry archive. I ping who is the author of the map. --Ritchie92 (talk) 14:14, 18 November 2020 (UTC)