A Like Portugal, Italy also celebrates its freedom day on April 25th. However, the Italian anniversary is almost three decades before the Carnation Revolution and marks the triumph over Nazi fascism in 1945, at the end of World War II.
On Thursday, thousands of Italians took to the streets to celebrate their liberation from Nazi occupation and the fascist regime with marches and demonstrations.
The celebrations began with a solemn ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Rome, which was presided over by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. According to the news agency The Associated Press (AP), part of the day’s demonstrations were motivated precisely by the fact that the government member belongs to the Brothers of Italy party, with roots in the neo-fascist movement that emerged after the fall of dictator Benito Mussolini.
There were also marches, demonstrations and some clashes between the police and pro-Palestinian groups, who took advantage of the day of liberation to demonstrate against the war between Israel and Hamas, in the Gaza Strip.
It should be noted that, although the war in Italy did not end on April 25, 1945, this was the date chosen to mark the “liberation”, as it was on that day that the withdrawal from the cities of Milan and Turin began. , soldiers from Nazi Germany and fascist soldiers from the ‘Republic of Salò’, a ‘puppet’ state created in the last years of the war, in the north of the country, at a time when the Allies already occupied a large part of Italian territory.
By decision of dictator Benito Mussolini, Italy became involved in World War II on the side of the Germans, but four years after the start of the conflict, on September 8, 1943, Italy signed an armistice with the Allies, dividing the country into two: in the south, English and North American forces were established, while the north was occupied by German troops.
King Victor Emanuel III took refuge in the Apulia region (south), while Mussolini fled to Germany.
You can see, in the gallery above, images of the demonstrations in Italy.
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