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BlackshirtsItalian Camicie NereArmed squads of Italian Fascists under Benito Mussolini who wore black shirts as part of their uniform. The squads, first organized in 1919, targeted socialists, communists, republicans, and others. Hundreds of people were killed as the squads grew in number. In 1922 Blackshirts from all over Italy participated in the March on Rome (see Rome, March on). In 1923 the private Blackshirts were officially transformed into a national militia. With Mussolini's fall in 1943, the Blackshirts fell into disgrace. |
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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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