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QUOTATION:Until recently the word fascist was considered shameful. Fortunately, that period has passed. In fact, there is now a reassessment of how much grandpa Benito did for Italy.
ATTRIBUTION:Alessandra Mussolini, Italian actor, politician, and medical student. As quoted in Newsweek magazine, p. 19 (February 17, 1992).

The granddaughter of the Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) was announcing that she intended to run for Parliament as a neofascist candidate.
 
 
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