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Victoria Levchenko
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A top five historical document for me—the highest quality of writing and observations I’ve encountered in a diary/memoir. Few words are wasted as Origo paints a vivid image of navigating Italy’s entrance into WW2 within a well connected, largely anti-fascist community.
Anyone interested in fascism and/or WW2 history should give this a read.
— Nov 06, 2025 06:14PM
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Anyone interested in fascism and/or WW2 history should give this a read.
Emilie
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The ultimate result of unceasing propaganda has now been to cancel out the effect of all news alike. One man said to me, "The radio has made fools of us all".
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Emilie
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Impossible not to like them; impossible too not to feel that Fascism was, in its beginnings, a genuine revolutionary movement of the people. Easy to see how they have been worked up to hatred of the countries presented to them as
"obese, capitalistic, decadent" - to identify Fascism with the good of the working-class.
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"obese, capitalistic, decadent" - to identify Fascism with the good of the working-class.









