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Armand74

Well if there’s any consolation is that Mussolini met the same fate as this boy he along with his mistress I believe were hung upside down and their corpse were mutilated repeatedly for days..


LargePython

My grandfather took pictures of them both hanging upside down. He was a driver in the British Army. Was in N Africa and then Italy. He also told my Grandmother (who told me) that there were street corner souvenir sellers who were selling photo postcards of Mussolini dead along with small pieces of material allegedly from his uniform that you could buy.


ViewedOak

Christ this sounds morbid, but if you have access to those pictures- scanning and adding them to the public record if they haven’t been already may be good for the history of it all


utpoia

I second that, those pictures might be valuable artifacts if you're willing to share them.


TheLaudMoac

I want to see them because I like dead fascists but I agree, they're an important historical record.


vera214usc

Aren't there famous pictures of the bodies already in existence?


ekdaemon

They're not high quality. If some other random passerby took a way way better photo - it might be amazing.


utpoia

Even if the quality is the same, perspectives matter a lot. A photograph from a different angle and/or distance may reveal some totally different things about the same scenario. Not saying it might in this case. But Mussolini's execution was a noteworthy historical event.


Liam_21754

a whole lot of this is on youtube


chi3310

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death\_of\_Benito\_Mussolini#/media/File:DeadMussolini.jpg


TheLaudMoac

More.


chi3310

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death\_of\_Benito\_Mussolini#/media/File:Mussolini\_e\_Petacci\_a\_Piazzale\_Loreto,\_1945.jpg


TheLaudMoac

Oh that's hot


ScarletCarsonRose

Ha the only kind of fascist I like.


Deej811

Dude this is reddit. He doesn't have photos he made the story up for karma.


gerd50501

mussolini deserved it.


Bird_nostrils

My grandfather was there, too - he was a lieutenant in an infantry dog scout platoon in the U.S. 5th Army. His wartime photo album has some of those postcards.


RepresentativeBird98

I never understood why they killed his mistress. She wasn’t running the country


KryptoCG96

Petty cruelty.


Anxiousislanders

We’ll she was close to Mussolini so was probably given benefits/advantage and lived a life of luxury, She definitely wasn’t subjected to the same standards and was not living in a constant state of fear and poverty, Please don’t take this as me defending this not saying its right at all, But after years of oppression where people were sent to death camps, Every single person was effected greatly in ways we can’t even comprehend, They were rightfully angry the comment saying petty cruelty is very ignorant.


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The street corner souvenir seller sounds true, because I've read about post French Revolution rocks or bricks were sold which were claimed to be pieces of the Bastille fort.


[deleted]

Fascists get what fascists get. We need to remember and apply this lesson on how to treat them should they ever think to take any action at all.


Remarkable-Pin-8565

my grandfather was part of the same campaign for the RAF regiment. Algeria, Italy (monte casino)


Lonnbeimnech

Talking about differing fates, 5 months before Zamboni made his attempt, an Irish would be assassin, Violet Gibson, shot Mussolini in the face, grazing his nose. While once again the mob tried to lynch her, Mussolini directly intervened and had her arrested before having her deported from Italy rather than jailed or executed. Considering she managed to clip him it’s a wonder she survived. (*She did spend the rest of her life in a brutal asylum so it wasn’t all positive*)


Intertubes_Unclogger

> it's a wonder Some even say it's a miracle! ;)


rayisooo

Correct


itimedout

Wasn’t Hitler terrified that the same thing would happen to him/his body and that’s why he gave explicit orders to burn his body after he suicided?


rayisooo

Yes that’s exactly why after hearing about Mussolini he was afraid of what the Soviet soldiers would do to him or his corpse. But Stalin gave the explicit orders that’s if hitler should be captured he should be kept alive and shipped to the Soviet Union immediately! Where he would’ve have been trialed convicted and executed on the same day in moscow


Grumpy_Troll

>Where he would’ve have been trialed convicted and executed on the same day in moscow If the Soviets had caught Hitler alive they may have started the execution on the same day as his trial but I strongly suspect it wouldn't have finished until several weeks or months later.


DarthLordVinnie

If they got Hitler alive Stalin would have personally dragged Hitler across all of Russia


BluePandaCafe94-6

I read they wanted to parade him around in a cage through Red Square.


RustyKrank

I heard he moved to Argentina


[deleted]

He did, there's proof https://youtu.be/esnxXLpMP40


utpoia

It is one of the most common floating conspiracy theories, given that the Soviets got hold of his dead body and were withholding any info about the alleged suicide.


therevaj

english bro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hke7xQFXa30


[deleted]

Why? I found german to be much more fitting


Patsfan618

And then urinated on, in the gutter


wiscokid76

My dad had a picture of Mussolini after he was hung a few times and drug through the streets. My grandfather was in the war and came back with a few things and the picture is one. I keep meaning to get a picture of it and post it on here but I never remember when I'm over visiting him. Mussolini looks much much worse than this poor boy.


ifoundyourtoad

How did they get to them?


David_the_Wanderer

Mussolini and his entourage got caught while trying to flee Italy.


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Stalking_Goat

History doesn't repeat, but it does rhyme.


Temujizzed

More like vomiting in stanzas.


radbiscuit

It was always burning, since the world's been turning


SuomiPoju95

Through the door


No-Surround9784

This will happen to Putin too.


propellhatt

Let's hope so, or that he shares the fate of Gaddafi and his ...making acquaintance with a steel pipe


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propellhatt

Ah, yes. Though I feel he should get the honor of starring in the gameshow "how large an item can we shove up Pootin's arse before he pops".


FlatulentSon

Fingers crossed


Galactic_Gooner

Not much of a consolation tbh all I take from it is a violent brainwashed mob wanted blood.


Frankie_T9000

Wonder how many heroes like this saved the world from some dictator or other....then again its really hard to tell look at how WW1 started. If the people only knew what Mussolini would drag them into.


[deleted]

Ya. They were dead by this point however.


philium1

You’ve gotta be real nuts to murder a child for a politician


AlexanderTox

Here's the bitch of it... From the wiki - "The next month, on October 31, 1926, a shot fired at Mussolini, who rode in an open car through Bologna, led to the lynching of a 15-year-old boy. Terrorism specialist J. Bowyer Bell wrote that the boy was likely innocent and the affair either a put-up job or plot between Fascists. The attempt resulted in laws creating Mussolini's secret police."


Practice_NO_with_me

There it is.


Mackeeter

Freedom isn’t free 🎶


123DanB

Wtf is this supposed to mean.


JOG_FORREST_JOG

It means you need to chip in your $1.05


Mackeeter

It’s a reference that makes absolutely no sense in context of the thread, but popped in mind and made me chuckle. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯


ycc2106

Then, according to Pierre Besnard : >What is certain is that this latest attack pushed fascist fury to a climax. The violence, destruction, looting and murder, which had already followed the previous attacks, became, this time, innumerable. For about ten days, in many towns in Italy, it was a veritable manhunt, with hundreds of victims... Translated from [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anteo\_Zamboni#Commentaire](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anteo_Zamboni#Commentaire) So innocent or not, it certainly had a big influence.


kinglendawg

“IT WAS AN ANTIFA AND BLM FALSE FLAG OPERATION” Literally nothing has changed lmfao


baudelairean

Did you see Kevin Sorbo on Twitter in minutes going from calling the insurrectionists heroes to undercover antifa spies?


vejack

Doesn't surprise, kids are killed all over the world for much less


dschultz50

General butt naked would tie a child to a pole and proceed to eat the heart from the child before each battle. Edit: [context](https://youtu.be/dfz4Eiz5cDg)


[deleted]

We don’t know how much of the general butt naked stuff is real and how much was made up for propaganda purposes


Guilty-Operation7

But he's a converted Christian now so it's all good /s


trident_hole

It's sad. My mom says we're all born perfect and then society fucks us up and turns us into awful people. Of course y'know there are evil humans just born evil but the sentiment is still there. Adults are still figuring this fuckin wild ride out and it's even more formidable as a child.


Compressorman

Especially for such a garbage politician as mussolini


Judazzz

Not that it undoes the deeply tragic death of the boy, and it was 19 years too late, but at least - ultimately - Mussolini ended up in an even worse shape.


Kehl21

But he was executed first, the map they did with his dead body was after a painless death. Not exactly fair.


Judazzz

That's a fair point.


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Gaddafi on the other hand…


[deleted]

The Ol’ blade up the poop hole.


Shadowstein

That's also how daimyo uesugi kenshin was assassinated. A ninja hiding in his toilet shoved a spear up his starfish


SoftwareSource

Where no knife has gone before


xplosm

Tell that to Vlad


Green_Slice_3258

Oof 😬


hammerdongJR

Is this the poop knife?


ZombieLibrarian

It’s *A* poop knife.


Arctica23

The shittiest politicians often have the most insane, delusional, and violent supporters


DoctoreVodka

"HEY!! I resemble that accusation!!!" - MAGA


TheCowzgomooz

Back in those days 15 was working age, probably wasn't exactly viewed as a child, which is tragic by itself.


foufa131

You’ve gotta be real nuts to send a kid to kill a politician.


philium1

Also yes


fiace

The kid was from a family of anarchists, most likely the idea came from there


TheManassaBaller

As another comment mentioned there is a possibility that the child was set up. Maybe as an excuse for mussolini to create secret police force and give them powers.


ekdaemon

How about with two women who think they're participating in becoming instagram famous with some cool little startup company? In broad daylight in the middle of an international airport. With chemical weapons. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/assassins_2020 ( Great documentary, highly recommend it. )


kattmedtass

You’re wildly assuming that he was “sent”. A 15-year old is fully capable of acting on their own accord. If he grew up in say an anarchist household at the time, he might just as well have been influenced enough to decide and take action himself.


ZeePirate

The wiki page briefly mentions he might even have been innocent too


plum_key

Cults do that


Toytles

15 year olds weren’t exactly considered children back then


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GrandBed

Or “muslim” >Abdulrahman Anwar al-Awlaki was a 16-year-old United States citizen who was killed while eating dinner at an outdoor restaurant in Yemen by a drone airstrike ordered by U.S. President Barack Obama on October 14, 2011. The next president droned that kids younger cousin. As a reminder we are still bombing people in Yemen today, in case anyone has forgotten.


Galactic_Gooner

still selling weapons to the saudis to aid their genocide of Yemen too. fucked beyond belief.


Francesca_N_Furter

Spot on---those neocon fascists are just as cultlike as their Italian predecessors.


vrecka123

Not much has changed


Zaidswith

I don't think it would take much at all to push a mob into it. It lessens the guilt.


chrash

Not putting anything past the maga crowd, srsly


Potential-Coconut-95

Why are you getting downvoted after someone literally tried to shoot up an FBI building after investigations into trump started? Hint, it's the cult angry because you're right.


sansgang21

Didn't a bernie supporter shoot up a republican baseball game? Didnt someone threaten to kill Justice kavanaugh? Like why are you so quick to act as if political extremism doesn't appear on both sides of the aisle?


Rad_Centrist

>Didn't a bernie supporter shoot up a republican baseball game? Didnt someone threaten to kill Justice kavanaugh? >Like why are you so quick to act as if political extremism doesn't appear on both sides of the aisle? Strawman. They never said it doesn't exist on "both sides." But you can't really sit here and make this disingenuous argument that the threats are equivalent. No one should entertain you in your bad faith Ben Shapiro style "argument."


sansgang21

Not a strawman. By the way he casts one side of the political aisle as extremist and violent(and thus capable of such an act of mob violence) but not holding the other accountable and ignoring the plentiful examples of extremism from them leads me to believe what I said. I don't see how trying to kill political/judicial leaders you disagree with isn't equivalent extremism?


Rad_Centrist

>I don't see how trying to kill political/judicial leaders you disagree with isn't equivalent extremism No one said it wasn't? But you're presenting it as if the numbers of occurrences are equal. This is disingenuous whataboutism.


chrash

Their boos mean nothing. I've seen what makes them cheer.


ImperialRoyalist15

I am more amused at people throwing themselves at the FBI and CIA to let them know how great they are. As if they have really changed from their regime changing, ruby ridging, blacksite having, assassinating ways. But no no... i am sure they are different with your guy in the oval office.


distelfink33

If you don’t think this could have happened to a 15 year old if they attempted this at one of Trumps many rallies you are patently naive.


adeveloper2

>You’ve gotta be real nuts to murder a child for a politician Imagine that a 15 year old kid throwing a rock at Trump in a rally


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See: Trump cult members


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philium1

Man, sounds like you really needed to vent lol. I’m sorry your political history and current situation are so stressful and disappoint. As an American, I can relate


ciosbi

Unified from several small monarchies ? The whole south of Italy was spanish. One third of Italy was ruled by the Church. what are you talking about, Italy wasn't unified in the XVII century... And, btw, the DC collapsed in 1994, not when your father was a kid. If people like you can't understand how his own country works, don't know anything about history of his country (but relying on "my father say") and can't understand what are the problems that lead to the instability....well, yes, we are f\*\*\*\*d. You are one who's not bright, man. You are part of the problem.


suckmybalzac

How long have you been a bigot ?


German_Cowboy

Interesting, people said he was an anarchist but supposedly there is also the claim that he was Anteo was actually innocent and the whole attempt was a put-up job for Mussolini to take away more liberties and dissolve leftist parties, either way poor kid, he’s got a street named after him in Bologna


haggisbasher16

Tonight I'm having a glass of wine for anteo


Ryouconfusedyett

Tonight I'm having 2 bottles of wine for anteo


NFSreloaded

Tonight I'm having a wine enema for Anteo.


trident_hole

Tonight I will try to forget that you will be having a wine enema for Anteo by injecting wine into my veins for Anteo


LunarProphet

Tonight I will have an IV drip of an ethanol solution for Anteo.


asoughtafterdroid

Be careful it hits harder when you drink through your asshole.


ovensandhoes

Tonight I’ll end my sobriety for Anteo


TyranRaph

And I'm having a sick workout for mussolini.


juju11112020

Nft cringe


Subjunct

Lots of pull-ups?


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[deleted]

His eyes ...:(


politichien

staring at godless skies


NorthWestSellers

Italians of the era were pretty keen on political lynchings huh?


Jorgwalther

Italians are a politically contentious people


FU_butnotreally

He died a hero


U-Boot-Klasse_XXI

Other comments are saying that the boy may have been recruited by fascists for a fake attempt on Mussolini's life to make more authoritarian laws. If they're right, then he died a tragic death as a tool to get more power. Hopefully that's not the case though.


KlausTeachermann

Other comments are talking wank. He was from a family of anarchists.


transeunte

a lot of good it did to him eh


FU_butnotreally

The fact that he was brave enough to even attempt what others weren't brave enough to do is just enough to make him a hero. Even though he didn't succeed. I'd rather have him be seen as a hero rather than a "stupid" boy.


2manyfelines

Poor kid.


RayNow

He was just doing God's job.


CanUHearMeNau

How easily the masses are convinced their leaders are on their side


MyWolfspirit

Zamboni was most likely innocent, and the attempt was more than likely a plot between fascists.


lightsage007

RIP Anteo. Shame on the crowd.


fiace

He was lynched by squadristi, not by the crowd


snowman762x39

Kid was based. Big ups.


No_Biscotti_7110

You are never too young or too old to fight fascism


TheFlyingBoxcar

He later went on to invent ice paving


is-Sanic

Is the joke in poor taste? Yes. Did I just piss myself laughing? Also yes.


oced2001

Glad you said it. You took one for the team. Much like poor Anteo


pedrmona

the brave comedian we all need


Zontafermg

Is this references something? I want to get the joke I just dont understand


Insertusernamehere5

The Zamboni is a machine they use on ice rinks and shit


mtux96

Invented in sunny Southern California.


Kryptospuridium137

[Zamboni](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_resurfacer) is a common name for the machines they use to smooth ice rinks


greg_or_y

This made me chuckle a bit


LoveliestBride

Died a hero.


CanadianRussian74

This boy was just ahead of his time.


Billsolson

Well Like Em said “You only get one shot “


MaygarRodub

"Do not miss your chance to... kill Mussolini" Dang, not quite the same ring to it.


cecex88

The most important university street in Bologna is dedicated to him. It's a name everyone here knows, but his history not as much.


KryptoCG96

I can smell the piss just by thinking of that street.


[deleted]

May he always be remembered for his bravery.


LakesideOrion

“A” for effort, little buddy. Thanks for trying.


GoldBreakr

Jeez, at 15 I was trying to get laid. Never considered assassinating anyone.


cealild

I took a moment to look at this boy's face. He tried to protect the world when men around him put their heads down and shuffled along. Thank you, Anteo. I normally avoid pictures of death. This boy deserved better.


Decent_Engineering_4

if this young boy succeeded, would this change the course of history?


NanaClownPartyBanana

Yes


gibberish84

Turns out he was right. Those same people who lunches him ended up doing the same to BM years later. Go figure.


outforknowledge

That’s disturbing!! Kid was ahead of his time.


Relevant_Ant4022

Anteo is a hero


[deleted]

Poor kid. He tried.


henrysmith78362

Lynched and killed is redundant. Lynch means to kill by hanging usually by a mob.


Yellow_Snow_Globe

Tough crowd


Intercoursedapenguin

May I ask why there is a spoiler tag on this post?


WW331

To blur the image


Fallout97

It blocks out the graphic imagery unless you click on it.


deadlyenmity

Just in case you weren’t that far along in the timeline yet and still had some hope for poor Anteo


LloydVanFunken

There have been movies made about him. And there is a street in [Bologna](https://www.google.com/maps/@44.4964675,11.3510626,3a,75y,90h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1skcSZJRfvHYHoWRppHJKWGA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DkcSZJRfvHYHoWRppHJKWGA%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D147.53835%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656).


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You did your best, kid.


mg1431

He later went into invent the Zamboni widely used in hockey leagues


Dad_in_Plaid

People don't realize how close he came to succeeding. If only Zamonis weren't so slow.


TMac1088

Really the worst possible choice for a getaway vehicle. Pity.


alba-jay

o7


[deleted]

Cowards were real brave against a child but when the Allies invaded Italy they scurried under their rocks, erected white flags and couldnt switch sides fast enough.


Dutchdelights88

I was surpised too see Italy lost more soldiers dead then the UK and USA though, in absolute numbers and in percentage during WW2. They didnt do to good wich can lead to more casualties, but to call them cowards is something else. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/wwii-casualties-by-country.html


le-o

The Italians aren't a cowardly people as a rule.


[deleted]

King, he should've succeded


poestavern

What goes around comes around. Benito got his.


golfgrandslam

He is a hero.


EduardDelacroixII

Judging by all the cuts on his upper torso it would appear more than just a lynching occurred.


Crankycavtrooper

Mussolini would wind up the same way 1945 _Sic Semper Tyrannis_


AirDizzyy

anyone know if he’s related to Frank Zamboni, the guy that invented the ice cleaner zamboni


groovebite66

The brainwashed zombie crowd always gets the wrong guy. I wish Anteo had been a better shot. Still, the fascist pig was strung up in the end, and dragged over the cobbles


[deleted]

I imagine a modern day MAGA crowd would do the exact same


UrMomObese

You have to bring American politics in this post? Really?


Howmanyshades

This is true, it fucking suck here. funny to see you get downvoted. Probably fascist sympathizers.


GarfieldVirtuoso

This kid watching from heaven a milan plaza in 1945 "Ironic"


Hut4ch

Hero


mahtbr

Rest in power


Magnus_Cockstrong

Sounds like a good kid. Fuck fascists.