#PeoplesHistory | 🇮🇹 Today, we celebrate # Italy's #LiberationDay, when 77 years ago, the #Partigiani defeated fascism and the German occupation in 1945.
#FestaDellaLiberazione
After a general strike & a working-class uprising in many Italian cities, the anti-fascist #Partisans, mostly led by communists, defeated Adolf Hitler's occupation armies alongside the remaining loyalists of Benito Mussolini & took control of the Northern industrial centers.
Days after liberating Milan and Turin, the Partigiani captured and executed Benito Mussolini and the leadership of the 20-year fascist dictatorship.
#FestaDellaLiberazione
Hollywood and the #US establishment have created the myth that the western allied armies – mainly the US army – liberated Europe from fascism and Nazism and won the Second World War on their own.
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But the reality is that several national liberation movements and armies were the key players in defeating the Nazi occupation forces in their countries. Greece, Yugoslavia and Italy are important examples of this.
#FestaDellaLiberazione
In Italy, the Partigiani was a guerrilla army of about 300,000 brave combatants who constantly fought against Nazis & Fascists. The Soviets were the other great army that defeated Hitler's troops. The Soviet Union lost about 26 million people in the war against Nazism & Fascism.

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