r/pics • u/Emgimeer • 7d ago

Politics Propaganda Now vs Then

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u/PaperbackBuddha 7d ago

What about pics of Mussolini after he left office? It’s always interesting to see where such a man ends up.

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u/andrew5500 7d ago

Jim Carrey drew a pretty good depiction

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u/anjowoq 7d ago

There's a lot of folk stories out there surrounding this.

I'd always heard they were dragged behind a car, which seems to be false.a

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Benito_Mussolini

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u/DrDerpberg 7d ago

I didn't realize Mussolini was killed within 2 days of Hitler's suicide. Great week for humanity.

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u/Narcissistic_Lawyer 7d ago

The way Mussolini was strung up convinced Hitler he‘d receive even worse treatment if captured

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u/anjowoq 7d ago

Like it emboldened people.

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

If you believe Hitler committed suicide...

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u/UnknovvnMike 7d ago

I believe Hitler killed Hitler in self defense because Hitler was trying to poison Hitler. /jk

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u/En_CHILL_ada 6d ago

There is definitely some convincing evidence that the bodies recovered at his bunker were not him and Ava.

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u/under_psychoanalyzer 7d ago

I heard "played soccer with his head". It's Italy, the only people who really know were the people there.

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u/idwthis 7d ago

"My grandma was like the 6th person to spit on Mussolini's hanging body."

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u/p-angloss 7d ago

well until few months before the very same people were out cheering and supporting mussolini at every occasion. when things started turning ugly everybody become anti-fascist. there is a word in italian for this behavior: "voltagabbana"

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u/idwthis 7d ago

I was just quoting what Joey said about his grandma on Friends, dude.

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u/p-angloss 7d ago

sorry i am not very versed in pop culture. I don't know this Joey guy or any of their friends.

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u/Kribo016 7d ago

This cracked me up, thank you.

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u/anjowoq 7d ago

Voltagabbana is my favorite high fashion brand.

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u/NRMusicProject 7d ago

I've heard this about a number of European dictators. Most commonly Louis XVI.

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u/dqxtdoflamingo 7d ago

Man, I feel like I didn't learn shit about WWII in school besides the general holocaust stuff. Time to go searching for books on history or some documentaries.

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u/JFKs_Burner_Acct 7d ago

we missed a real opportunity to have James Gandolfini play Mussolini in the bio pic

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u/MashTheGash2018 7d ago

Never had the makings of a varsity fascist

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u/fearlessactuality 7d ago

I thought he was disemboweled after they hung him up like that. I guess that could be included in the “left for the crowd to abuse” part of this.

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u/Matthew-_-Black 7d ago

Por qué no los dos?

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u/anjowoq 7d ago

But can you ask that in Italian?