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Italy's divided memory?
My question is basically just to see whether I have understood correctly. It is my understanding that when we talk about Italy's divided memory of the second world war, what we are talking about is the fact that people remember what they want to, and forget that which they are ashamed of. but now I am thinking that maybe it means divided memory in the sense that one part of the population remembers things one way, and another part remembers things differently. so....which one is it?!
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavourite answer
Mussolini was Dictator of Italy from the late 1920s onward.
Like other colonial powers Italy was trying to expand and its objective was to colonize many African countries , particularly in Nth Africa.(Libya)
The Italians were ruthless and cruel as they sought to build their lost Roman empire.
The world remembers regardless of Italy's collective memory, just the way that we remember Japanese and German atrocities against Civilians regardless of their collective memories.
But it was over 60 years ago and it is history.