Posted on 04/28/2015 9:51:02 AM PDT by Borges
Yes, that’s the picture he took, hanging upside down. I don’t recall if was a service station, or even if the type of building is apparent in the photograph.
Several years ago, my boss’ secretary mentioned she had a photo I might be interested in. She knew I was a history buff, and she produced a photo of Mussolini and Petacchi after they’d been cut down. Her aunt took the picture.
I could think of a few other hangins that would be a good day. :-)
His last words were “I need to stop for gas.”
yes i have
Lucky for him that the Italians didn’t invent pinatas.
LOL!
For later.
>>Fascism- you really think it will be this obvious?
It will be this obvious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n1p9P5ee3c
According to Jonah Goldberg’s book, “Liberal Fascists” Mussolini was very popular among American liberals and progressives in the 1920s.
Goldberg also claims, compared to the other world leaders of the day (Hitler, FDR, Chamberlain, and even Churchill) Mussolini was more intelligent. He basically came up with fascism on his own (and it wasn’t Hitler’s antisemitic version)—that is a nationalistic socialism that allows capitalism.....after seeing WWI’s incredible nationalism.
Mussolini had been a communist before WWI. He saw though the international appeal of class struggle in communism wasn’t enough to unify the people to bring a true popular revolution....but—after seeing the power of national rivalries of WWI—he thought ancient ethnic nationalism would.
I think it’s fair to say that the current democratic socialism found in Europe is really just a kind of “kinder, gentler” fascism, minus the nadir of nationalism....which is seen now as the root of all evils. Even the USA as re-created by FDR, was and is really a kind of fascism—moving towards Mussolini’s ideal of:
“Everything within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.”
Liberals & progressives were, and are, fascists.
Daniel Chester French finished the statue two years before, in 1920. So unless he was super-attuned to Italian politics it doesn't have anything to do with Mussolini and fascism.
The faces was a symbol of the Roman Republic and it appears several times in the US capitol. Nothing to do with Mussolini.
Hmmm . . . now that you mention it . . .
It was a former gas station. The photo is in the middle of NYTs page here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3285115/posts
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