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title: A CITIZEN TELLS THE FACTS TO GIANNI TOTI AND MONDINO POMPA

subject date: 2005-06-22

caption: JOURNALISM Gianni Toti (from behind, 24 June 1924 – 8 January 2007) and Mondino Pompa, in the editorial staff of Lavoro, the CGIL weekly, collect the ''complaint'' of Alfredo Nardecchia, a citizen of Rome: in the ''Mostra dell'' beyond'' organized by the ''propaganda and press studies'' (Spes) office of the DC (exhibition with an impressive title that referred to life in the countries behind the Iron Curtain), had been recognized in the two-metre high hardback portrait of a Pole from a colleague, who immediately reported it to him. In the anti-communist educational review, to illustrate the miserable conditions of the alleged ''slaves of communism'', photos taken precisely in Rome were used abusively, as if they came from Eastern countries. At the end of a tour in northern and southern Italy, the exhibition landed in the capital, in Termini station, and here Nardecchia and others recognized themselves in the subjects on display. Conceived on the occasion of the elections linked to the so-called ''fraud law'', the event was obviously the target of controversy due to the mystified images, but it nevertheless contributed to raising awareness of the Cold War. Photograph by Ando Gilardi (1921 - 2012) #andogilardi from a large series created for ''Scandalo dell'al di qua'' (see from FSNgilardi_77968.jpg to FSNgilardi_77979.jpg and FSNgilardi_45516.jpg), report by MONS published on ''Lavoro '', illustrated rotogravure newspaper of the CGIL, Rome, n. 21 of 24 May 1953.

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continent: Europa

image century : XX

image epoch: Anni Cinquanta

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subject century: XX

subject epoch: Guerra fredda

technique: Fotografia

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