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Article: Mussolini's heirs shake off their fascist mantle
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 29, 1995
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1995 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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IT WASN'T all that long ago - just a touch more than two years
- that Italian neo-fascists in black shirts were parading in Piazza
Venezia to mark the 70th anniversary of Mussolini's March on Rome,
giving each other one-armed Roman salutes and si nging Fascist
hymns.
In those days the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement, or MSI,
held congresses that were openly nostalgic for the days of Il Duce,
with black flags and busts of the great Italian dictator adorning
the conference hall, and even the odd hand-to-hand fight in fond
tribute to the strong-arm thuggery of Mussolini's squadristi.
How times have moved on. The old political order has collapsed,
the MSI has come in from the cold and, with ...
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