Nicola Bombacci

Nicola Bombacci was an Italian Marxist revolutionary and later a fascist politician. He began in the Italian Socialist Party as an opponent of the reformist wing and became a founding member of the Communist Party of Italy in 1921, sitting on the fifteen-man Central Committee. In his career within the left-wing, he was often called Il Lenin di Romagna. During the latter part of his life, particularly during the Second World War, Bombacci allied with Benito Mussolini and the Italian Social Republic against the Allied invasion of Italy. In April 1945 he was shot by communist partisans and his body was subsequently strung up in Piazzale Loreto.