Il Duce taumaturgo: Modernist Rhetorics in Fascist Representations of History

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The Changing Face of the Enemy in Fascist Italy

“…The exhibition's organizers stressed the fascist postwar crushing of Italian Bolshevism over Italy's victory in World War I; they conflated the fallen soldiers of the First World War with the fascists 'martyred' in the domestic political battles of 1919 to 1922. 24 In one of the exhibition's rooms, the visitor stood below a canvas-draped ceiling, adorned with an enormous 'X,' for Year Ten. It was covered in "socialist and anarchist flags, placed in semi-darkness."…”