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The Matteotti Crisis

The Birth of Italy's Fascist Dictatorship

John Ganz
Oct 03, 2022
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How a cold-blooded assassination sparked anti-fascist movement | The Star
Matteotti shortly before his death

Since attention has been on Italy recently, I thought I’d write about one of the key moments in the creation of Mussolini’s regime: the political crisis brought on by the assassination of Socialist politician Giacomo Matteotti in 1924.

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