Meloni heads Italy’s most rightwing government since the second world war. Italy’s criminal code punishes with a fine ranging from €1,000 to €5,000 anyone who “publicly defames the republic”, which includes the government, parliament, the courts and the army.
TIL about Italy’s shunning of their past in contrast to the “collective guilt” felt by Germans after WWII
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italiani_brava_gente
Have you ever heard of Mafia. Bc if you come to this country they will mostly collectively lie and tell you" Hun? Naaaa that’s gone". You live here for a while and you like, oh ok, we just pretending it’s gone nice.
The fact that the Italian military & it’s leaders were spared from the Nuremberg Trials made this all the easier.
Sometimes it feels that Italy consists entirely of pasta, fascism and 🤌.