 However, without an election, which could not be held because of the chaotic situation, it was impossible to determine how many people the Resistance represented.Almost all of the Resistance was anti-monarchist; nevertheless, a temporary alliance between them and the Badoglio government was created by the decision of Joseph Stalin and Palmiro Togliatti, secretary of the Italian Communist Party, to postpone the problem of the state organisation and focus all efforts on the fight against Hitler's puppet state in the North.At the end of the war, Italy was a severely damaged country, with innumerable victims, a destroyed economy, and a desperate general condition.