Mirko mussolini biography

PREDAPPIO – For years, busloads of fanatical hard-right supporters have been making the ‘pilgrimage’ to the Capital of Fascism, tucked away amongst the tranquil, rolling hills of Romagna. The town of Predappio however, has had enough and is spearheading a tourism transformation to regain their region and share with visitors the diversity of this fascinating, picturesque territory.

 Predappio’s centre-left Democratic Party mayor is piloting the unlikely project to convert Benito Mussolini’s Casa del Fascio (House of Fascism) into a museum, not seeking to eulogise the former Italian dictator, but instead learn from the reality of a dark era in the country’s history.

 The change in Predappio epitomises the rapidly evolving cultural hotspots across the often-overlooked mountainous countryside of Romagna, overseeing a shift in focus towards offering a more personable welcome to visitors which, in turn, has galvanised support for agritourism.

 A revitalised collaboration between neighbouring municipalities has allowed locals to tell the true story of Romagna.

 Mussolini admirers have long flocked to the birthplace of the country’s former cut-throat leader, born on July 29, , whose visits continue to reopen the scars of early to mid-twentieth century Italy. As such, Predappio has involuntarily cemented itself as the ‘meeting point’ for those wishing to celebrate Italy’s dormant, but very much still alive hard-right sentiment.

 The sheltered romagnolo town acts as a microcosm for Italy – a country which has never quite managed to shake off the shackles of its Fascist past – but Predappio, in particular, has struggled to come to terms with the ‘boom and bust’ of the Mussolini era.

 An assortment of fascist-themed memorabilia, from the belligerent to the utterly bizarre, line the streets of an otherwise sleepy town; replica daggers, Mussolini-branded beer bottles, truncheons and fascist recipe books draw in “comrades of Il Duce,” looking to mark their trav

ROME — Mirko Tremaglia, a right-wing politician who won a decades-long battle for the right of Italian emigres to vote in Italian elections, died on Friday. He was

Italian news agencies and Sky TG24 TV said Tremaglia died at home in Bergamo, northern Italy, after a long illness.

Tremaglia was a co-founder of the Italian Social Movement, a neo-fascist party built on the ashes of Benito Mussolini's political legacy. But he gradually moved toward what is now Italy's center-right — first as a leader of the National Alliance and then as a prominent member of Silvio Berlusconi's conservatives — before breaking with the media mogul in to defect to a new center-right party.

In a condolence message to Tremaglia's family, President Napolitano, a former Communist, noted that the late lawmaker and himself had "different experiences" and ideological positions but they shared a "sense of national responsibility."

"Particularly strong remains the mark of his commitment to give voice and representation to Italians abroad," Napolitano said.

Tremaglia campaigned tirelessly in Parliament for rights for millions of Italians who had emigrated, or who were born to emigre parents, to cast ballots in Italian elections. His dream became law in , the same year he became minister for Italians abroad, in one of Berlusconi's governments.

In spring , campaigning for Berlusconi in parliamentary elections, Tremaglia energetically worked the crowds in South America, where many of the million Italian voters abroad lived. The law also gave Italian emigres the right, for the first time, to have representation in Parliament.

Tremaglia had served as a lawmaker in Parliament's lower chamber, the Chamber of Deputies, since Chamber President Gianfranco Fini, himself a former neo-fascist leader and former Berlusconi ally, hailed Tremaglia in a tribute Friday, as a "great political and persona

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“There was a bloke called Mirko. We were friends in school – we knew each other, played football together.” Kemal Pervanić is telling me what life was like in Kevljani, north-west Bosnia, before war visited his hamlet in Mirko was from a Serbian family and Kemal’s family was Muslim. “About a year before the war started, I’d see Mirko and he wouldn’t talk to me, he wouldn’t even look at me,” remembers Kemal. “I could see something was happening.” Indeed it was. In , Yugoslavia’s republics held multi-party elections. In April , following Slovenia and Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina’s independence was recognised by the European Community. In May, Kevljani was attacked by forces variously described as “Serbian” and “Bosnian Serb”. Soon, Kemal was imprisoned in the iron ore mine turned concentration camp in nearby Omarska. Thousands were held there, and many did not leave alive.

Kemal now lives in the UK and is a producer and protagonist of the documentary film Pretty Village, shown in September at London’s Frontline Club. In this – a first cut to which there may still be changes – Kemal revisits Kevljani to reflect on how his life and his community were changed by the violence that unfolded. As Kemal explained to the Frontline Club audience, it’s a film about “what happens to ordinary people and their relations in the context of a conflict”.

As a young man born into Tito’s Yugoslavia of “brotherhood and unity”, Kemal identified as a Yugoslav: “I think most guys from my generation had the same identity [whether they were] Serbs, Croats, Muslims,” he tells me. “Even then I was a secular humanist, although I didn’t hear those words. I didn’t have a clue what they meant!” Back then, Kemal didn’t have a problem with being seen as “Muslim”. But as war came, things changed. “Suddenly my neighbours didn’t see me as a Muslim. Muslim was the embodiment of evil, and wh

The election to an influential post of an outspoken neo-fascist who fought for wartime dictator Benito Mussolini is likely to prompt more concern about neo-fascist influence in the new Italian government.

Last week, Mirko Tremaglia, 67, was elected chairman of the Foreign Affairs Commission of Italy’s lower house of Parliament, the Chamber of Deputies, by members of the commission.

Tremaglia is a member of the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement, which was formed after World War II by supporters of Mussolini.

According to the biography of Tremaglia issued by Parliament, from to he fought for the Republic of Salo, Mussolini’s puppet fascist state in German-occupied northern Italy. The Salo republic was established after the Allies liberated the southern parts of the country.

The Italian Social Movement is the core party of the right-wing National Alliance movement, which forms a key part of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s right-wing coalition.

The National Alliance is represented in the current government with five of the Cabinet’s 25 ministers.