Claim: Mario Pirani was an Italian journalist, he was born in Rome but left the Communist party after the Soviet invasion of Hungary.
Evidence: Mario Pirani Coen (3 August 1925 – 18 April 2015) was an Italian journalist, economist, and writer. Born in Rome, he became a member of the Association of Journalists of Lazio in January 1958. Politically closed to the Italian Communist Party, he left it after the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956.