The Matteotti Murder: Uncovering Fascist Violence and Historical Revisionism in Italy

“Five people were waiting for him outside the house, all members of the team that came from Milan,
violence professionals hired by Benito’s closest colleagues
Mussolini”: this is how it begins the text by Antonio Scurati canceled from the record
Rai, with a wonderful memory of itThe Matteotti murderof them this year
It is 100 years since his death.

« Reverend Matteotti, secretary of the Socialist Party of Unity, the last person in the Parliament who was still openly against the fascist dictatorship, was kidnapped in the center of Rome, in broad daylight, in light the day He fought to the end, because he had fought all his life. They put him to death, and then they changed his body. They folded it on themselves so that it could fit into a hole that had been badly dug with a blacksmith’s file. Mussolini was immediately informed. In addition to the crime, he was guilty of defamation to swear to the widow that he would do everything he could to bring her husband back to her.. While under oath, the Duke of Fascism kept the victim’s bloody documents in his desk drawer,” Scurati wrote.

«In this false spring of ours, however, we are not only celebrating the political assassination of Matteotti; they are also marked the Nazi-fascist massacre carried out by the German SS, with the complicity and collaboration of the Italian fascists, in 1944″.

And here they are, then, those murders, the most brutal: «Fosse Ardeatine, Sant’Anna di Stazzema, Marzabotto. These are just some of the places where Mussolini’s demonic allies destroyed thousands of defenseless Italian civilians in cold blood. Among them hundreds of children and even babies. Many were even burned alive, some decapitated. These two concomitant sad anniversaries – spring of ’24, spring of ’44 – declare that fascism has existed throughout its entire historical life – not only at the end or sometimes – an unimaginable phenomenon of systematic political violence, assassination and murder. Will the heirs of that story recognize it once and for all? Unfortunately, everything suggests that this will not be true”, affirms the writer, moving from the dark years of fascism to current history.

“The post-fascist ruling group, after winning the elections in October 2022, had two paths before it: reject its non-fascist history or try to rewrite history. Of course he took the second route. After avoiding the topic during the election campaign, the Prime Minister, when faced with historical anniversaries, firmly stuck to the ideological line of his original non-fascist culture. : she distanced herself from the unimaginable brutality of that regime (persecution of the Jews) do not reject the fascist knowledge in its entiretyhe blamed the murders committed on the Republican fascists’ obsession with the Nazis alone, and finally ignored the fundamental role of the Opposition in Italian rebirth (to the -level he did not mention the word “anti-fascism” at the time. from 25 April 2023).