LE LEGGI FASCISTISSIME: L'ITALIA ENTRA NELLA DITTATURA - DOCUMENTARIO RAI "PASSATO E PRESENTE"

Today has past present we talk about fascism and repression all beginning in 1926 with the establishment of the special tribunal the first two tried two boys who called Mussolini a stinker are sentenced to a few months Then however there is the important trial of the communist leaders including Gramsci and Terracini the sentences

are tens of years and then the establishment of the confinement confinement to which political leaders like Giorgio Amendola are sent but also great intellectuals like Carlo Levi who will leave the book Christ Stopped at Eboli and Altiero Spinelli who will leave together with others the manifesto of Ventotene November 1926 the special tribunal for the defense of the State is established which

has the task of judging political crimes and repressing all activities against the fascist regime May 28, 1928 the trial against the communist leaders takes place in Rome in the fourth courtroom of the Palace of Justice the secretary of the party Antonio Gramsci is sentenced to 20 years in prison July 1943 after the fall of Fascism

and after having distributed 28 thousand years of prison in its 17 years of activity the special tribunal is dissolved by the Badoglio government [Music] of fascism and repression we speak today with professor Giovanni De Luna and with Mariachiara conti Guglielmo Motta and Ilaria Faccini professor I ask you first something for context What is the

difference between saying the authoritarian regime and totalitarian regime I have never understood very well authoritarian refers to the CR regime is a mode of government precisely authoritarian typically nineteenth century The totalitarian project is totally different totalitarianism means trying to fully absorb all of civil society within the institutions and as they say a project that provides for the