![]() So does fascism remain an enduring problem in Italy? ![]() The MSI enjoyed a fair amount of support in the centre and south of Italy - and even ended up courting the Christian Democrats themselves - until it disbanded in 1995 following the collapse of Italy’s major parties. ![]() Leader of the moderate Christian Democratic party for parts of the 1950s, 1960s and 1980s, he had been a member of the fascist party and a signatory of the anti-semitic racial laws (leggi razziali) introduced in 1938.Ĭertain fascists, on the other hand, refused to join the political mainstream and rather coalesced to form their own party - the Italian Social Movement (Movimento Sociale Italiano, MSI), which revived the main tenets of the Fascist Party in all but name. While some of the more prominent fascists were publicly disgraced or even killed, many former party members or sympathisers re-entered the political establishment.Īmong these was one of Italy’s most important post-war prime ministers: Amintore Fanfani. Thousands of Italians had been part of the fascist regime’s institutional and bureaucratic machine, had harboured open or hidden sympathies for Mussolini himself, or had gone to war on Italy’s behalf.
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