“Not only was [Fascist] Italy the first Western country to recognize the Soviet Union in 1924, but the new Soviet art first appeared in the West that year at the Venice Biennale, Italy's premiere art show.”

Source: Fascism: Comparison and Definition (1980), A History of Fascism, 1914—1945 (1995), p. 223

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