#Italian Fascist

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1926 – Dublin-born, Violet Albina Gibson, daughter of Lord Ashbourne, shot Benito Mussolini in Rome on this date.

Italian Fascist leader, Benito Mussolini, had just given a speech in Rome to the International Congress of Surgeons when a bullet nearly ended his life. After Mussolini finished his speech praising modern medicine, he walked to his car. At the time, no one noticed Violet Gibson, a small Irish woman with a long history of mental illness, standing among the crowd, just feet from Mussolini. Once…

[thefugitivesaint]

Vincent Aderente (1880-1941), ''Hearst's'', July 1917 Source

[haganerin]

Umineko Gender Headcanons Tierlist... extended thoughts in tags. First time using this acc to ramble and probably wont be the last

[wild-flowerhoney]

if your nico wouldn't have this picture hanging in his cabin idc about him sorry

this all tying back to my unashamedly italian nico fic where i make him shoulder ungodly anger towards the regime bc im tired of ppl casually saying he hangs out with mussolini's ghost or whatever as if that's not an extremely gross thing to say!

[a-books-allure]

The current state of the world’s politics is just… disheartening to say the least.

[gfanlocalcryptid]

The italian vice premier and minister of infrastructure and mobility Matteo Salvini said the 7/14/2024 in an interview regarding the Trump assassination attempt "I hope this will be useful to anyone who sows words of hatred and malevolence against the right-wing, against the fascists, against the racists and against Trump"

[liberaljane]

I’m just a lil’ ravioli!! 

Circle graphic with a fork in a piece of ravioli with red sauce. Text wraps around and reads, ‘I’m just a lil’ ravioli against fascism.’ There is also basil and cheese. 

[demonbarberofbeepbeep]

not sweeney todd but i'm just realizing how much i love the musical trope of a puckish political radical narrator mockingly describing the events around the female main character's life

[shalom-iamcominghome]

Have you ever been to Israel ? Or are you planning to ever go to Israel? b'ezrat hashem that’s one of the first things I’m gonna do when I finish my conversion, is go to the holy land. So excited

I have not been outside my state in over three years, so I hope this answers your question 😭

My dad has mentioned wanting to go to Israel and honestly, I'd go with him if that were ever to happen. I have very mixed thoughts about what I want, but if I go to a different country, I'd probably only really want to go to Israel, especially because I'm using most of my language study time on Hebrew (though I'd also go to Germany with my dad because he really wants to go there again and... we're also German, so). There are a lot of things I'd want to collect from Israel, too... 🙏

[duncebento]

sooo happy i wont be in the US dyring heavy election season lmao

[heresronnie21]

Nico di Angelo would not wear an Italian flag patch on his jacket

[livetogether--diealone]

We used to be a proper country

[alexjcrowley]

I am sorry for all of us

[sforzesco]

Can you recommend your favourite sword-and-sandal movies?

if Steve Reeves was in it, I probably watched it and had a good time. everyone's got legs for days in those movies, and I think the costuming choices are fun!

more specifically tho: The Avenger/La leggenda di Enea (The Legend of Aeneas) and Hercules/Le Fatiche di Ercole (The Labours of Hercules)

searching 'peplum' films on youtube should give you like, so many of these films

that aside, I'd recommend looking up Steve Reeve/other popular sword and sandal actors' acting credits and checking out whatever sounds most fun. they've got everything. You like biblical antiquity? They got biblical antiquity! You want the Trojan War? They got the Trojan War! just. be sure uhhhhhhhhh to watch them some of them with a critical eye.

special mentions to Ben Hur (1959) and Cleopatra (1963), which are actually epics, but I'm throwing them in here because they're so heavily fictionalized in their visuals that it's sword and sandal adjacent to me.

[coffeeworldsasaki]

Is there discrimination towards Italians from the south? Sure! It's a thing! My father once caught a neighbor spying on him because she thought he was a criminal! Does that magically make us less white? No fucking way because the second there's an actually not white person the fascists still go and defend the white people from the south! It's more similar to the way white Americans from the south are treated! We're still privileged over brown or black people!

[ciaheyhimm]

You can say whatever about him, but he's my favourite historical figure.

Galeazzo Ciano >>>>>>>

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Also have a picture of Balbo with De Pinedo. The picture is dated 1927.