''Pattuglia'' ( it, Patrol) was a weekly communist satirical magazine published between 1948 and 1953 in Milan, Italy. It was official media outlet of the youth organization of the Italian Communist Party. Its subtitle was ''il corriere dei giovani'' ( it, The courier of young people).

History and profile

''Pattuglia'' was launched in Milan in 1948 as a weekly. The magazine was organ of the

Italian Communist Youth Federation The Italian Communist Youth Federation ( it, Federazione Giovanile Comunista Italiana, FGCI) was the youth wing of the Italian Communist Party (''Partito Comunista Italiano''; PCI), and the direct heir of the Federazione Giovanile Comunista d'Ita ...

(Federazione Giovanile Comunista Italiana), a youth organization affiliated with the Italian Communist party. Its stated goal was to education, guidance and organization of the communist youth. Dario Valori and Gillo Pontecorvo coedited the magazine until 1950 when Pontecorvo was replaced by Ugo Pecchioli. Then it was coedited by Valori and Pecchioli. The magazine targeted the radical youth members of the Communist Party and had a clear anti-American and pro-Soviet political stance. It frequently attacked anti-Communist Italian politicians such as Alcide De Gasperi,

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, Guido Gonella and

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. The magazine praised the Soviet leader Josef Stalin and published a hagiographical issue following his death in 1953. It featured

vignettes Vignette may refer to: * Vignette (entertainment), a sketch in a sketch comedy * Vignette (graphic design), decorative designs in books (originally in the form of leaves and vines) to separate sections or chapters * Vignette (literature), short, i ...

by the Soviet cartoonist

Boris Yefimov Boris Yefimovich Yefimov (russian: Бори́с Ефи́мович Ефи́мов; ,The birth record of Boris Fridlyand (Boris Yefimov) in the metric book of the Kiev rabbinate for 1900 ( ЦГИАК Украины. Ф. 1164. Оп. 1. Д. 454. Л. ...

and Michele Majorana. Enrico Berlinguer who was the secretary of the Federation,

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, Italo Calvino, Ivano Cipriani, Sandro Curzi, Antonio Ghirelli, Renato Mieli, Mario Pirani, Gianni Rodari and Marcello Venturi were among its contributors. The magazine sponsored beauty contests like its sister publications '' L'Unità'' and ''

Vie Nuove ''Vie Nuove'' (Italian: ''New Ways'') was a weekly popular magazine published in Rome, Italy, between 1946 and 1978. The magazine was one of the post-war publications of the Italian Communist Party which used it to attract larger sections of the ...

''. ''Pattuglia'' folded on 28 November 1953 partly due to its inability to reach militant youth masses.

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