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Article: A gnawing Fascist nostalgia. (Letter from Trieste).(Italy)
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- The New Leader
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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TRIESTE THIS YEAR, at a supermarket newsstand, I bought a calendar that I would never put on my wall. It is dedicated to the memory of Il Duce, Italy's Fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, who came to power in 1922 and led the country into World War II alongside the Nazis.
The cover shows a uniformed Mussolini, with his bald bullet dome and jutting jaw, standing arms akimbo in front of huge Fascist symbols. Each month features big black and white photographs of him in various attitudes of strut and swagger, plus color reproductions of hagiographic Fascist-era posters and militant quotes from his speeches and writings.
Each month, too, important dates from ...