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Italy celebrates 62nd anniversary of liberation from fascism
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by Kaitlin | April 26, 2007 at 12:35 pm
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Yesterday was the 62nd time Italians celebrated their freedom from brutal fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. The national holiday is often greeted with a mixture of festivities and protest of current regimes frustrating its citizens.
The day that's just as important but is a little more buried in the annals of history? April 28, 1945, three days after the liberation and the day that Mussolini and his mistress were caught by communists and shot. The next day, their bodies were strung up on meat hooks in Piazzele Loreto in Milan as a demonstration to other fascists that their leader was dead.
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Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, marking the 62nd anniversary of Italy's liberation from Fascism, said on Wednesday the celebration is for all Italians, local media reported.A postwar tradition has always seen April 25, 1945, as the moment when a divided Italy rallied behind Resistance leaders to raise the country from the ashes and recover its patriotic honor.
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at 22:27 on April 26th, 2007
I almost totally disagree with the last paragraph Kaitlin. April 28 isn't at all "buried in history annals", it was simply condensed with april 25 in one and only day to remember all. Moreover, hanging the bodies of Mussolini and Claretta Petacci (this was the name of the mistress) wasn't intented "as a demonstration to other fascists that their leader was dead". There were already no fascists around: some of them ran away, some others became communists straight away and were already mixed up with population and wearing the red flag of partisans. It was to show all ppl that the dictature had finally come to an end. And as to hanging, it was not the original idea of partisans, that only wanted to publicly expose the bodies. But population in piazzale loreto took over and decided to hang the bodies. A brutal reaction that, however, cannot really be understood with nowadays ethics...