Thursday, January 09, 2025

Laughing with the Fascists: The Mussolini Era

Mussolini's regime isn't generally associated with a sense of humor, but the Fascist party found comedy useful in certain circumstances.

Posted by Dbt2 at 05:54 PM | 1 COMMENT | permalink

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FTA: "Journalist Leo Longanesi is said to have invented the slogan 'Mussolini is always right' as a joke only to have it adopted by the regime while Longanesi moved into creating Fascist propaganda."

#1 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-01-09 06:12 PM

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