Thousands commemorate Italy's fascist dictator Mussolini
Source: The Associated Press/By Colleen Barry
PREDAPPIO, Italy (AP) — Several thousand black-clad fascist sympathizers chanted and sang in praise of the late Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on Sunday as they marched to his crypt, 100 years after Mussolini entered Rome and completed a bloodless coup that gave rise to two decades of fascist rule.
The crowd of 2,000 to 4,000 marchers, many sporting fascist symbols and singing hymns from Italy’s colonial era, was more numerous than in the recent past, as the fascist nostalgics celebrated the centenary of the March on Rome.
On Oct. 28, 1922, black-shirted fascists entered the Italian capital, launching a putsch that culminated two days later when Italy’s king handed Mussolini the mandate to start a new government.
The crowd in Predappio, Mussolini’s birthplace and final resting place in the northern Emilia-Romagna region, also was apparently emboldened by the fact that a party with neo-fascist roots is heading an Italian government for the first time since World War II.
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The story also says some of the crowd at the event, which AP says was attended by at least two Mussolini relatives, flashed fascist salutes.
God help us. Seriously.
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Mussolini spearheaded a comically incompetent bid to restore the Roman Empire, showcasing an absurdly unprepared and unwilling army, and leaving Italy short of food, clothing, building materials, and natural resources. And you're celebrating this??? 
