Posted on 01/14/2024 11:29:11 AM PST by Eleutheria5
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A viral social media video shows hundreds of men dressed in black standing in a central street in Rome and performing the Nazi salute several times.
The gathering was held in memory of three neo-fascist activists who were killed in 1978.
The three were members of the ‘Italian Social Movement’ and two of them were killed, presumably, by left-wing activists, with the third killed by a police officer after a riot broke out in that spot.
The video has caused controversy in Italy. Italian authorities have announced they are opening a criminal investigation.
The ceremony is held each year on January 7th, but the participants did not use the Nazi salute, or Heil, until this year.
Giorgia Meloni, the Prime Minister of Italy, has participated in the ceremony several times, albeit before taking office.
everal senior members of her party have also taken part in the ceremony, but according to their staff did so only to leave wreaths for the memory of the murdered and left the area before the salute."
The head of the Italian opposition parties called for the Prime Minister to break up the neofascist organizations active in Italy that performed the salute.
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The media likes to minimize the support for the right in Italy, but it's far larger than they show.
I was in a museum last year in the former Pontine Marshes that Mussolini did a lot to drain and settle. The placards still referred to him as "Il Duce."
Italy is a STRONG SUPPORTER of Ukraine, after all.
I like to remind neo nazi wannabees on GAB that once Mussolini got hung up like a pig, Italy declared war on Germany.
It’s actually not certain the Romans saluted that way.
Wrong.
Italy declared war on Germany on October 13, 1943.
Mussolini was executed on April 28, 1945.
It's more accurate to say that once Mussolini was deposed, Italy declared war on Germany.
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Hail, Skroob!
Idiot reporter doesn't know the difference between Nazis and Fascist. Perhaps he or she should study some Jewish history and learn what happened to the Jews after the Fascists lost power and the Nazis took over in northern Italy.
You left out the American students pledging allegiance to the American flag using the traditional Bellamy salute.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamy_salute
England vs. Germany 1935, note the English players are also giving the Nazi salute.
How does the FBI have the budget to send so many agents to Italy?
Nazi Germany was a type of fascism with more emphasis on racial purity than Italian fascism, but still fascist.
There's a human tendency to accord legitimacy and seriousness to things perceived as ancient customs. Just about all leaders of novel social groups borrow or invent "ancient" customs for that reason.
In his Rhetoric, Aristotle advises using archaic language to appear serious and authoritative. Like the King James Bible.
I don’t think they were dressed in black shirts to look more Roman. For that, they’d be wearing metal pleated mini skirt. The fascists might have started that salute because it was supposedly from ancient Roman times, but the black shirts were not.
And then they went around the corner and joined the pro-Hamas protest.
I have a friend who argues that we should understand fascism as primarily an aesthetic movement regarding perceptions of order and symmetry.
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