Inside the Soviet Union, the Soviets divided that they should use the Comintern in regards to other socialist and communist parties and movements around the world to support them with propaganda, advisers and finances. Especially as any attempt of the support them in direct, violent uprisings and coups might make them enemies not only in the targeted nation states, but also their allies and friends. At the same time a too direct Comintern control was seen as contra productive in the eyes of Moscow, as it might alienate those who would otherwise support their ideology and ideas. At the same time Saint Petersburg (Petrograd) was renamed Leningrad, in honor of the now dead former leader of the Revolution and the Soviet Union; Lenin. Meanwhile in Italy, the socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti speaks out against Fascism, resulting in him being kidnapped and murdered in Rome. Shocked by this development of overall political violence, that in Russia had lead to the Civil War, many Socialists and Communist condemned this violence and some questioned if some form of criminal persecution of those responsible should be demanded, as Fascist Italy itself did not seam to keen on truly investigating the chase and many feared the socialist and communist movements could loose all influence in Italy, now that the Fascist control and hegemony in the Italian Nation State grew.