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Fascism in Italy: Has the country moved on from its past?

Why Mussolini鈥檚 legacy still resonates with the neo-fascist minority.

Nearly 80 years after the death of Benito Mussolini, you can still find some Italians who openly proclaim their loyalty to the dictator and give the fascist salute at rallies. That behaviour would be punished with jail time in Germany. But in Italy it鈥檚 mostly met with indifference. So why do Italians seem so casual about the country鈥檚 links to fascism, past and present? And what does it mean at a time when right-wing forces are on the rise across Europe? Katya Adler speaks to the 成人快手鈥檚 Rome correspondent Mark Lowen, who鈥檚 just made a documentary about neo-fascism, and the Italy correspondent for The Economist, John Hooper.

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