The PCI in particular had been developing an independent line from Moscow for many years prior which had already been exhibited in 1968 , when the party refused to support the Soviet invasion of Prague . In 1975 , the PCI and the PCE had made a declaration regarding the " march toward socialism " to be done in " peace and freedom " . In 1976 , the PCI 's leader Enrico Berlinguer had spoken of a " pluralistic system " ( '' sistema pluralistico '' translated by the interpreter as " multiform system " ) in Moscow and in front of 5,000 communist delegates described the PCI 's intentions to build " a socialism that we believe necessary and possible only in Italy " . The Historic Compromise ( '' compromesso storico '' ) with the Christian Democracy , stopped by the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro in 1978 , was a consequence of this new policy
kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro
Kidnapping of Aldo Moro
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