Posted on 04/27/2020 9:01:26 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1945, Communist partisans shot Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci near Lake Como, along with fifteen or so additional fascist aides and officials...the next day, the victims’ bodies were hung up in Milan — the heart of Mussolini’s own power and still a stronghold of neo-fascist parties today — at Piazza Loreto for public abuse...
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These pics should be forwarded to all our current batch of career politicians.
You’re next.
That’s what he gets by stopping for gas.
Lol
Thank God my father’s father dragged him him here when he was six and thank God my mother’s parents came here.
Italy and Sicily are beautiful places to visit and I have some family there.
But it ain’t America.
Of course I know he was killed elsewhere before he started hanging around at the gas station.
Well, just from the few pics I viewed, seems their lives were pretty much shot at the end...
Apparently they were executed after short trial and their bodies were dumped the next outside a gas station.
The crowds, wanting to get in one last bit of anger by kicking, stabbing and shooting them again, then strung em up..
Alberto De Stefani despised the fascists saying they're immoral and corrupt. Without him Mussolini would've failed the far sooner then he did.
Let’s hope this inspires John Durham tonight.
Should show the pictures.
I saw what you did there. *snicker*
In my opinion the most important person under Mussolini was alberto de stefani.
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I have not heard of him...But, I heard of Count Ciano...
He is son-in-law of Mussolini...He was executed. Mussolini went along with German wishes in that case...
There was an NBC miniseries about Mussolini...
MUSSOLINI: THE UNTOLD STORY (1985)...George C. Scott played Mussolini...
I remember reading somewhere that Winston Churchill was upset about how the mob treated bodies of Mussolini and Petacci...
A granddaughter of Mussolini was once active in Italian politics...
creepy...my pop was in Italy during WW2.
Just recently I brought down from the attic a spit load of photos. I was looking for something else when I ran across all the photos he took while he was there.
Some were postcards of Mussolini & Petacci hanging upside down.
Others look and felt like photos, but I couldn’t tell if they were reprints or not.
Toured Lake Como last November. Our guide pointed out the public square where he was executed by partisans who captured him in the hills above the lake on his way to Switzerland. Almost made it.
Count Ciano was nice example of no good deeds go unpunished
Alberto De Stefani is an interesting story. Picture Arthur Laffer unwillingly in Obama’s cabinet running the Federal reserve (assuming was part of the US government)
Among my dad's WWII photo album is a series of postcards (yup, postcards) showing them strung up. Lovely.
That is a first class idea!
When people are abused enough by political entities, eventually they push back.
The Italians pushed back. It didn’t end well for Ol’ Benny...
Didn’t end well for Ceacescu either... when the Romanians had finally had enough.
Note it was the Communists who did this.
They almost took over Italy after the war.
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