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Blackshirt History (in Europe) a member of a fascist organization, esp a member of the Italian Fascist party before and during World War II |
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| She uses her beauty and her smarts, sleeping with blackshirts and partisans both, spying on each group for the other, drawn into war's vortex. Thus in June 1934, Hitler accused Roehm of plotting a "second revolution" against the Nazi State, and unleashed the Blackshirts to liquidate Roehm and his cadres (as well as several prominent conservative politicians). Michael Parenti's recent books are Against Empire, Dirty Truths, and Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism, all published by City Lights Books. |
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