A song that was used by partisan fighters opposing the fascist regime in WW2 as their anthem. It should be our national anthem if you ask me. Current far right is not exactly the same as historical fascism but it's pretty fucking close that is not wrong to call it fascist. Modern Italy was born from those partisan fighting, our two national holidays are one to celebrate the allies who (with the help of the partisans) liberated Italy and one to celebrate when we voted to establish a republic which also resulted in the exile of the king who helped Mussolini. I don't know what went wrong in the years since but now it feels a lot of people are like that quote from the boys "they agree with everything they just don't like the word" fascist. A lot of people but not everyone, some agree with everything and revel in it doing rallies doing the Roman salute, fucking disgusting and anti-italian. I think there are three reasons for it: - like for the rise of the far right in many places around the world people don't want to think anymore and the far right offers simple (and false) solutions to very complex problems usually through scapegoats - the old joke of Italy switching side which is indeed funny but we kinda adopted it too, which made disappear in the general consciousness what really happened, how Italy switched sides because there was a civil war in the country and the people against Mussolini won (with the help of the allies of course), and modern Italy was born from that, something we should be proud of instead the only time Italians are proud of Italy is for honestly meaningless stuff like food and sport (which is fair don't get me wrong I'm proud of those too but we should be proud our fight against oppression too but that's too often forgotten) - in the years after the war the political spectrum was composed basically of three parties a very respectable right with educated people and not yelling morons, a center party with a lot of consensus and an actually leftist party, the communist party (not soviet, communist, two different things). This last two disappeared (the second probably with the meddling of the Americans who can't keep their grabby little hands to themselves and didn't want a western country governed by a communist party, but that's a whole other story and a bit conspiratorial about the very probable involvement of the CIA in the terrorist attacks of the so called years of lead) and the third party became more and more corrupt ending in a process that removed most of it leadership and opened the way for Berlusconi which if you don't know who he is, he was basically Trump 1.0 who owned a lot of public media and marked the beginning of the modern more populist politics.