Ermenegildo Gasperoni

He later shifted to serve as the political commissar of the international centre for recruiting and training volunteers.

[7][8] At both of these events Gasperoni voiced criticisms against the policies of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

[8][9] In 1978, Gasperoni was elected to serve a six-month term as one of the two Captains Regent (i.e., co-heads of state of San Marino), along with the socialist Adriano Reffi.

[10][11] With Gasperoni San Marino had a communist head of state for the first time in two decades.

[11] During a visit to the Soviet Union in January 1983, Gasperoni and the Sammarinese Communist Party general secretary Umberto Barulli were decorated with the Order of Friendship of Peoples at a ceremony in the Kremlin.