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“The large landowners of the Po Valley turned to the Blackshirts for protection. Glad for an excuse to attack their old pacifist enemies, fascist squadre invaded the city hall in Bologna, where socialist officials had hung up a red banner, on November 21, 1920.

From The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton

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