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According to some of his associates, Togliatti was traveling to the Soviet Union to support the election of Leonid Brezhnev as Nikita Khrushchev&#8217;s successor as leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. His favorite student, Enrico Berlinguer, would later be elected, following Longo, as his successor as National Secretary of the PCI (Italian Communist Party), although Berlinguer&#8217;s tenure in office would see him reject some of Togliatti&#8217;s policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palmiro Togliatti dies. 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