Early Life
He was born in the small coastal town of Muggia, then part of the county of Istria in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Already as a teenager, he joined the socialist movement in the nearby port city of Trieste. Vidali is said to have been, aged only twenty, one of the founders of the Italian Communist Party, but was expelled from the country after Benito Mussolini ascended to power in 1922. He is described as a Bolshevik in the file kept on him by the police in Fascist Italy.
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