Comment on Diary by Nicholas Farrell (13/09/2003)
Last week many people in Italy were both shocked and disgusted by Berlusconi’s statement about the fascist regime, according to which “That was a much more benign dictatorship – Mussolini did not murder anyone. Mussolini sent people on holiday to confine them”.
Giovanni Amendola (liberal deputy and former minister, d.1926);

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