• WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      How would a single member of parliament unilaterally authorize something like this?

      him being an mp wasn't related, he was an intelligence officer, specifically the highest rung on the ladder in rome

      • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Yup and a member of the Anti-Socialist Union with loads of other British government and aristocratic bigwigs. To whom Churchill gave a 25th anniversary speech praising Mussolini and calling him "the Roman genius and the greatest lawgiver among living men".

        • Dinkdink [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          We look on Mussolini today as an oaf and a clown, but in his day he was regarded as a genius. That was a real shock for me when I started investigating the history of fascism. People really believed in that shit.

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            Half of America thinks Trump is a genius.