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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Violet Gibson tried to put Mussolini down like the dog he was, and was diagnosed as insane/spent the rest of her life in a mental institution, ignored by family.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Two chance events prevented Gibson from succeeding: First, Mussolini happened to turn his head to look at a group of nearby students who were singing a song in his honor. This caused the bullet to graze the bridge of his nose rather than hit him square in the face. Second, though Gibson fired another bullet, it lodged in her pistol. By that point, she had already been dragged to the ground by a mob.

History's really rhyming here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.

-Benito Mussolini, 1932

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