MILAN (AP) Italy s failure to come to terms with its fascist past has become evident as it prepares to mark the 100th anniversary of the March on Rome today, which brought totalitarian dictator Benito Mussolini to power, a milestone that coincides with the country s first postwar government led by a party with a neo-fascist roots taking office.
Unlike Germany, Italy never underwent process of erasing fascist symbols after World War II; even PM Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy party retains flame emblem used by Mussolini
The National Association of Italian Partisans, which preserves the memory of the wartime resistance, has noted some signs of an emboldened far-right in regions governed by the Brothers of Italy.