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Read an Eye-Witness Account of Mussolini’s Final Moments
Time Magazine ^ | 4/28/2015 | Lily Rothman

Posted on 04/28/2015 9:51:02 AM PDT by Borges

Seventy years ago on this day, April 28, 1945, the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was executed after a failed attempt to flee Italy with his mistress.

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: billandhillary; clintoncash; italy; mussolini; ww2
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1 posted on 04/28/2015 9:51:02 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

Bflr.


2 posted on 04/28/2015 9:58:37 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (The White House is now known as "Casa Blanca".)
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To: Borges

Below that story on the same page:

Watch Taylor Swift Have an Entirely Rational Conversation With Sheep

more interesting..............


3 posted on 04/28/2015 10:03:13 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Borges

My father was a C-47 pilot in WW2. Among the many incredible pictures he took was one of Benito’s and Clara’s bodies hanging in the square.


4 posted on 04/28/2015 10:06:53 AM PDT by clintonh8r (ISIS IS ISlam/Christian lives matter!)
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To: Borges

His final words, “Why you leave me hanging?”


5 posted on 04/28/2015 10:07:52 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Borges

Looks like you have to join and sign in to read the whole article.


6 posted on 04/28/2015 10:09:26 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Borges

Just hanging out with his sweetie.


7 posted on 04/28/2015 10:09:52 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: Borges

“But I got the trains to run on time.”


8 posted on 04/28/2015 10:14:16 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: Borges
mussolini photo: Mussolini mussolini_dead.jpg
9 posted on 04/28/2015 10:16:02 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Snickering Hound

The Ceausescus looked even better....what a great day that was.


10 posted on 04/28/2015 10:16:35 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Red Badger
more interesting..............

Not at all more interesting. You don't see that, step-by-step, Obama's policies are so very similar to the storm of fascism unleashed by Mussolini?

Fascism continually provoked national violence in Italty--that's it's nature and practice.

Obama is doing nothing to stop national violence.

It's my hope that many FREEPERS will stop consulting the music and entertainment industries for the limits of their knowledge of history and current events.

I personally don't want to see the president of the United States and his woman hung by their heels from the roof of an Esso station. But historical lines seem to be converging.
11 posted on 04/28/2015 10:16:57 AM PDT by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: Snickering Hound

He should cut back on the salt, looks a little bloated.


12 posted on 04/28/2015 10:17:45 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: clintonh8r
... hanging in the square.

I thought he/they were hung upside down at a gas station, and passersby took the opportunity to relieve themselves on him.

13 posted on 04/28/2015 10:19:21 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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It took a massive invasion of Europe on three fronts to defeat fascism.

It won’t end here like it did there..................


14 posted on 04/28/2015 10:19:58 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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15 posted on 04/28/2015 10:21:16 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Borges
A little known fact here. See Wikipedia. Mussolini tried to destroy the Sicilian Mafia. In 1924 he appointed a prosecutor and imprisoned over 11,000 of suspected organized criminals. With the demise of Mussolini, back came the Mafia.

I remember a British MP at the time, saying that it was wrong to summarily execute Mussolini. That he should have been brought to trial. He was shouted down. The actions of any mob, in this case the Italian communists, are often horrific. Mussolini's mistress, had not committed any crime.Still, the old adage "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" holds good.

We see today the actions of a mob to exact "justice". It is not pretty.

16 posted on 04/28/2015 10:25:16 AM PDT by Peter Libra
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Yes................


17 posted on 04/28/2015 10:27:09 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: clintonh8r

I heard they hung them from a pole at an Esso station.


18 posted on 04/28/2015 10:28:59 AM PDT by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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To: Borges

Folks ever notice the close similarities between the mannerisms of Il Duce and Obama. It’s eery.


19 posted on 04/28/2015 10:47:58 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: dfwgator

“The Ceausescus...”

A study in how to fundamentally change a government when it absolutely, positively has to be changed overnight. ;o)


20 posted on 04/28/2015 10:49:35 AM PDT by beelzepug (liberalism is not...a political philosophy. It is a stage of arrested emotional development.)
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