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unusual facts about Italian fascism


Time Must Have a Stop

Bruno is able to retrieve the painting but at great cost - calling on friends that inadvertently make himself an enemy of the Italian Fascisti.


Dino Grandi

Dino Grandi (June 4, 1895 – May 21, 1988), 1st Conte di Mordano, was an Italian Fascist politician, minister of justice, minister of foreign affairs and president of parliament.

Francesco Coppola

Francesco Coppola (born: September 27, 1878, Naples, Italy; died 1957, Anacapri, Italy) was prominent Italian journalist and politician in the twentieth century who associated with Italian nationalism and later Italian Fascism.

Gais, South Tyrol

Gais is one of the three communes of South Tyrol whose name, for the simple reason of being overlooked, remained unchanged by the fascist renaming programme which aimed at replacing mostly German place names with Italianized versions, the other two being Plaus and Lana.

Istro-Romanian language

In 1922, the Italian regime of Benito Mussolini declared the village of Susnieviza — which they renamed to Valdarsa after the Arsa Valley (valle d'Arsa) region (it has since reverted to the pre-Italian name but written in Croatian as Šušnjevica) — to be the seat for the Istro-Romanians, with a designated school in the Istro-Romanian language.

Jaghbub, Libya

The heroic resistance of the Italian troops was vastly celebrated by the fascist regime and used to minimize the military defeat in Cyrenaica.

Latina railway station

--I'VE NOT FOUND THE ORIGINAL NAME 1922-1932--> In 1932, during fascism and after the foundation of the actual city, the new station of Littoria (original name of Latina, named after the fascio littorio) was enlarged and a new building projected by the architect Angiolo Mazzoni.

Pier Luigi Romita

During the Fascist period, he followed the father into confinement in the islands of Ustica and Ponza, and then at Veroli.

Said bey Kryeziu

He returned from France and resided in Belgrade from 1939 to 1941, supervised by the Yugoslav authorities, and helping Albanians to go back and fight against the Italians.


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Ernesto Barba

He had some distractions, however, left over from the defeat of Italian fascism at the end of World War II, and in the 1970s he became a senior follower of the Indian spiritual group called the Ananda Marga, whose leader Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar was unjustly imprisoned with a false accusation (and then later cleared of charges).

Ernst Nolte

Mosse, George Review of Three Faces of Fascism: Action Française, Italian Fascism, National Socialism pp.

Opera Nazionale Balilla

Opera Nazionale Balilla (ONB) was an Italian Fascist youth organization functioning, as an addition to school education, between 1926 and 1937 (the year it was absorbed into the Gioventù Italiana del Littorio, GIL, a youth section of the National Fascist Party).