"For years there has been speculation that Antonio Gramsci, who died on April 27, 1937, just two days after his final release from prison, may have been murdered and not died of natural causes. It may have been the fascist regime that killed him through poisoning, or even a joint action of the fascist and Soviet services". These are the words, on the anniversary of Gramsci's death, of MP Roberto Morassut (PD) in a post published on Facebook. "For both regimes," Morassut explains, "Gramsci's release would have created big problems. For fascism, he was a symbol of the anti-fascist struggle conducted with indomitable consistency. Stalinism saw him as an adversary and, at the height of the wave of Stalinist purges, considered him enlisted by the Trotskyist network. Gramsci was actually so exhausted that he meditated on going back to Sardinia or going to the USSR. But both destinations were politically very difficult to go along with. His writings, just after his death, were collected and given to Togliatti in the Soviet Union. His body was cremated without any certain medical bulletin or an autopsy. There was talk of collapse and then of cerebral hemorrhage, but without any evidence".