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Brent Sirviö @sirv.io

Reburial of the fallen soldier is a textbook fascist tactic. Edmund Burke got thrown off the GOP bus so long ago, one has to wonder if he was ever on it in the first place.

Having come to power with the promise to unite the nation, the Fascists sought to erase divisions by imposing their own interpretation of the First World War as a triumph. In that respect, the ossuaries and the use of the fallen soldier as an exemplar helped to promote a positive vision of the war as a glorious victory, which the entire nation had supported. As a shared admiration for the dead conveyed a sense of common morality, the ossuaries also supported Mussolini’s goal to achieve “moral unity” and the integration of Italians into a reconstructed state. As “brothers in sacrifice,” the dead were seen to bind the nation into oneness and to aid the Fascist ambition for a morality under which Italians would be united. source: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/88DFC13B038C771687566F5E86DBFF1A/S0010417521000384a.pdf/the-fallen-soldier-as-fascist-exemplar-military-cemeteries-and-dead-heroes-in-mussolinis-italy.pdf
aug 29, 2025, 2:09 pm • 1 0

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