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Italy still exhibits Fascist monuments

In Italy, the EUR district in Rome was conceived by Mussolini as an architectural celebration of fascism. Wandering its eerie landscape, you come across the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, whose façade is emblazoned with a quotation taken from Mussolini's speech announcing the invasion of Ethiopia. Just north of Rome's city centre lies the Foro Italico sports complex, whose entrance features a 17.5m-tall obelisk with the words MUSSOLINI DUX carved into it. Inside the Foro Italico hangs The Apotheosis of Fascism, a painting depicting Mussolini as a kind of God-Emperor. It was covered up by the Allies in 1944 for being too grotesque, and then uncovered by the Italian government in 1996.

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Why Are So Many Fascist Monuments Still Standing in Italy? :::spoiler (Quote)

[…] the Allied Control Commission’s bulletins and reports instead recommended that only the most obvious and “unaesthetic” monuments and decorations, like busts of Mussolini, be destroyed; the rest could be moved to museums, or simply be covered up with cloth and plywood. :::

Row over fascist-era statue reveals schism in how Italians deal with past

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  • Wow fascist art is ugly as fuck lol.

    Reminds me in name and substance of the "Apotheosis of Washington", that ugly, reprehensible stain that still dirties the dome of the U.S. capitol's rotunda.

    • Wow and then they dare claim USSR had a "cult of personality"

      • I know right? We venerate presidents as if they are fucking gods. Mount Rushmore, this ugly trash, the Lincoln Memorial... The civil religion is insane here, but because people like(d) Stalin, Xi, or any of the Kims, they have a massive "cult of personality problem".

  • Artistic subversion is a creative solution. Though I wonder what alterations were made to the Olympics statue in Berlin since it's just 2 naked dudes?

    I think they should be holding hands

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