Milan, Nov. 14 (LaPresse) – “The President of the Senate of the Republic once again insisted yesterday on making his questionable, misguided and embarrassing remarks. It is time someone from his own political side pointed this out to him, reminding him that he is the second-highest office in the state, and that perhaps, before making absurd statements such as the one about the people who gave power to fascism, he should read a few more history books instead of only reading the collected issues of Il Popolo d’Italia.” Nicola Fratoianni of Avs wrote this on Facebook. “That way, he would know,” the left-wing leader continued, “that in the two years preceding the March on Rome, at least 3,000 people were killed, including trade unionists, left-wing political figures and opponents of all political stripes who stood against the Blackshirts, guilty of nothing other than being democrats.” “He would know that in the first six months of 1921 alone, more than 200 Socialist party offices were ransacked and over 250 cooperative premises were burned down. And he would know that it was the House of Savoy monarchy and a weak, timid political class that allowed fascism,” Fratoianni concluded, “to seize control of a country, destroying and suppressing everyone’s freedom and leading it to disaster.”
Fascismo, Fratoianni: “Qualcuno a destra dica a La Russa che è seconda carica Stato”
Milan, Nov. 14 (LaPresse) – “The President of the Senate of the Republic once again insisted yesterday on making his questionable, misguided and embarrassing remarks. It is time someone from his own political side pointed this out to him, reminding him that he is the second-highest office in the state, and that perhaps, before making absurd statements such as the one about the people who gave power to fascism, he should read a few more history books instead of only reading the collected issues of Il Popolo d’Italia.” Nicola Fratoianni of Avs wrote this on Facebook. “That way, he would know,” the left-wing leader continued, “that in the two years preceding the March on Rome, at least 3,000 people were killed, including trade unionists, left-wing political figures and opponents of all political stripes who stood against the Blackshirts, guilty of nothing other than being democrats.” “He would know that in the first six months of 1921 alone, more than 200 Socialist party offices were ransacked and over 250 cooperative premises were burned down. And he would know that it was the House of Savoy monarchy and a weak, timid political class that allowed fascism,” Fratoianni concluded, “to seize control of a country, destroying and suppressing everyone’s freedom and leading it to disaster.”