Benito Mussolini Executed (1945)
Sat Apr 28, 1945
On this day in 1945, Italian fascist Benito Mussolini was summarily executed, likely by communist partisan Walter Audisio, and then his corpse was hung upside down in the Piazzale Loreto, where it was beaten and shot by angry crowds.
Benito Mussolini (1883 - 1945) was the founder and leader of the National Fascist Party who inspired numerous fascist leaders, such as Adolf Hitler, Francisco Franco, and António de Oliveira Salazar, ruling Italy as “Il Duce” since 1925.
Mussolini’s grip on power had begun slipping as the Allies pressed into Italian territory during World War II. On April 25th, 1945, Mussolini attempted to flee Milan for Switzerland after the Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale Alta Italia (Committee of National Liberation for Northern Italy) seized control of the city. Two days later, Mussolini, along with other fascist leaders, were arrested traveling in a German convoy near the village of Dongo.
Accounts vary on how exactly Mussolini was killed, but the most commonly accepted version of the events suggest communist partisan Walter Audisio was the person who pulled the trigger. Following World War II, Audisio would be elected to serve in the Italian Chamber of Deputies.
In any case, the evening of April 28th, 1945, the bodies of Mussolini, his mistress, and other executed fascists were loaded onto a van and dumped in Piazzale Loreto, a town square where fifteen partisans had previously been executed by fascists and their bodies left on public display.
- Date: 1945-04-28
- Learn More: en.wikipedia.org, www.history.com.
- Tags: #Communism, #Fascism.
- Source: www.apeoplescalendar.org
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Happy upside down fascist day !
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ah, what a lovely couple
FYI your spoiler didn’t work
Fascists used to beat their antagonists and make them drink castor oil.
A teacher told me once in her town a guy saved everything he puked in a jair when they forced him to drink the oil. He saved that during the war and once the fascists lose, he made them drink his vomit he had in the jair.
Italians didn’t managed the liberation’s process like the germans did, that’s why many fascists are still there, but the rage was too big, I can’t blame them.
There were fascists directly in the following government after the war in Germany. There was no denazification here and it sadly shows.
Watching Afd results is indeed a bit scaring. Looking at the Italian/German situations today thet don’t loks so different actually.
Afaik that depends from East Germany, it’s something really peculiar. Propaganda and misinformation seems to have a real big impact on those people.
Got what every fascist deserves. Hung upside down from the Esso rafters.
'Ere! He looks just like Alexi Sayle.
