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Trash fascists. see also "si si si"
Rome's Palazzo Braschi housed the local Fascist Party Federation. Their party platform in 1934 was "Si" in a Plebiscite for a list of candidates endorsed by Mussolini. The state recorded individual voters choice using two ballots--one in favor colored as the flag and one opposed on white paper. The voter deposited their choice in the ballot box and returned the other ballot to election officials. The result was a landslide that Mussolini described as the "second referendum of Fascism." Unlike classical Roman buildings that were at least faced with "ornate details and rounded edges" in marble the "fascist buildings were Teutonic blocks of unrelieved travertine...cold and forbidding." (quotes from rarehistoricalphotos.com)
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"The Headquarters of Mussolini's Italian Fascis Party, 1934" Rare Historical Photos images via wikimedia commons.