John Foot teaches contemporary Italian history at the University of Bristol.
He just released
Blood and Power.
The rise and fall of Italian Fascism
(untranslated).
LE FIGARO.- A quarter of the votes cast this Sunday went to Fratelli d'Italia, a national-conservative party from the neo-fascist movement.
What does this result tell us about the relationship that Italians have with their past?
John FOOT.-
He reveals that the country has changed.
In the early 1960s, the mere idea that the Italian Social Movement (MSI) could support
a Christian Democrat government, without participating in it, caused a bloodbath in Emilia-Romagna.
In 1994, the entry into government of ministers from the ex-MSI gave rise to huge anti-fascist processions.
Today, on the contrary, there is no demonstration because people no longer see fascism as a phenomenon of the present time.
Those who knew Mussolini are fewer and fewer.
Otherwise…
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