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By Alvise Armellini

First nationwide map of Italy's fascist monuments goes online

FILE PHOTO: A man walks past a bas-relief depicting fascist leader Benito Mussolini in the EUR neighbourhood of Rome, Italy, known for its fascist architecture, October 19, 2022. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane/File Photo

More than 1,400 monuments, street signs and plaques honouring fascism have been put online in the first nationwide attempt to document the symbols of Benito Mussolini's regime that still dot the urban landscape of Italy.

While Germany systematically scrubbed clean any sign of Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime after World War Two, Italians took a much less rigorous approach to removing traces of their Mussolini's 21-year dictatorship.

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