Quoting Gruber, Bianchi lists the left’s contradictions regarding Kyiv and points out that the Allies supplied weapons to the partisans so that they could fight: “Peace came afterwards. But in Italy, Putin has won.”

During a debate on Otto e mezzo, the presenter of Propaganda expressed his views on the Russian invasion and the use of weapons in war. “Italy’s history of peace also began with the partisans who went out to shoot Nazis and Fascists.” Joining him in the studio were the secretary of the Young Democrats and a long-standing Democratic Party leader.