The Sicilian Mafia was less active during the era of Fascist Italy and it was fought by Benito Mussolini's government. In June 1924, Mussolini instructed...
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The Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra (Italian: [ˈkɔːza ˈnɔstra, ˈkɔːsa -], Sicilian: [ˈkɔːsa ˈnɔʂː(ɽ)a]; "our thing"), also referred to as simply Mafia, is...
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Organized crime in Italy (redirect from Italian Mafia)
retains some influence. The Sicilian Mafia became infamous for aggressive assaults on Italian law enforcement officials during the reign of Salvatore Riina...
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Italian fascism (redirect from Fascist Regime)
the fascist government combated organised crime and the Sicilian Mafia. Italian fascism was copied by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party, the Russian Fascist Organization...
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investigate Mafia links within the Fascist regime and was removed from his position in 1929, when the Fascist regime declared that the threat of the Mafia had...
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Calogero Vizzini (category Sicilian mafiosi)
a Sicilian Mafia boss of Villalba in the province of Caltanissetta, Sicily. He was considered to be one of the most influential and legendary Mafia bosses...
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Cesare Mori (category History of the Sicilian Mafia)
campaigns against Sicilian Mafia in the second half of the 1920s. Mori described himself as a Fascist, and wrote strongly of his admiration of the effectiveness...
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Mauro De Mauro (category People murdered by the Sicilian Mafia)
Originally a supporter of Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime, De Mauro eventually became a journalist with the left-leaning newspaper L'Ora in Palermo. He...
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had a prominent role in the events that led up to the fall of the fascist regime. He organised the arrest of Mussolini. The new Prime Minister, Pietro...
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The War of the Sicilian Vespers, also shortened to the War of the Vespers, was a conflict waged by several medieval European kingdoms over control of...
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