Tag: Angelica Balabanoff
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The Thermopylae of Fascism: Benito Mussolini’s Last Testament on His Life, Fascism, and Italy
The Thermopylae of Fascism “For this common ground,” Mussolini said in his last days of the Italian Social Republic (Salò Republic), “I would give my life even now, willingly, so long as it is truly marked with real Italian spirit.” (Testamento politico di Mussolini, 1948 Italian first edition, p. 5; dictated April 27, 1945). In…
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Angelica Balabanoff on Mussolini’s Problem in the “The Young Mussolini” film (1993)
Before Sono Tornato and Vincere A few months ago, I ordered from Amazon the film Il Giovane Mussolini (1993), renamed “Benito: The Rise and Fall of Mussolini.” I wanted to see what difference the film was to the later more psychological interpretation of Mussolini’s mind in Vincere (2010). In The Young Mussolini, Benito Mussolini is…
The American Minervan 