“I know the Communists. I know them because some of them are my children…”

—  Benito Mussolini

Speech quoted in Three Faces of Fascism: Action Française, Italian Fascism, National Socialism by Ernst Nolte, Henry Holt & Company, Inc. (1966) p. 154. Speech given on June 21, 1921 in Italy’s Chamber of Deputies.
1920s
Original: Conosco i comunisti. Li conosco perchè parte di loro sono i miei figli... intendiamoci... spirituali.

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