How to Defeat Authoritarianism | Benito Mussolini's Italy
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On June 5, 1944, BBC correspondent Godfrey Talbot stood in Rome's Piazza Venezia, staring up at the famous balcony where Benito Mussolini had just one year prior delivered the last of many fiery speeches to the masses below. At this moment, the windows of the balcony of the Palazzo Venezia from which Mussolini was to make his speeches, the windows have been opened and has come out onto the balcony, not Mussolini, but three Allied soldiers with their steel helmets on and their rifles in their hands, beside them two of the Italian people, and those four are standing there. and they're waving the Italian and the Allied flags, a vastly different scene from the ones which that balcony has staged in the past. Vastly different from the scene almost exactly four years earlier, on june tenth, nineteen forty. when Mussolini saluted his fascist followers and declared war on the Allies from that very spot.
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