Nicola Bombacci
Nicola Bombacci | |
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Secretary of the Italian Socialist Party | |
In office 11 October 1919 – 25 February 1920 | |
Preceded by | Costantino Lazzari |
Succeeded by | Egidio Gennari |
Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
In office 1 December 1919 – 25 January 1925 | |
Constituency | Romagna |
Personal details | |
Born | (1943–1945) | 24 October 1879
Spouse |
Erissene Focaccia (m. 1905) |
Profession | Politician, journalist, revolutionary, labour unionist |
Nicola Bombacci (24 October 1879 – 28 April 1945) was an Italian
Biography
Italian Socialist Party
Nicola Bombacci was born near
Italian Communist Party
In 1921 Bombacci became one of the founding fathers of the
Italian Social Republic
After Mussolini was ousted as Prime Minister of the
Death
Bombacci was shot on 28 April 1945 at Dongo (province of Como) where he had been captured, along with Mussolini, by Italian communist partisans. He was summarily shot alongside Mussolini. Before his execution, Bombacci shouted out "Long live Mussolini! Long live socialism!"[9] After his death, he was hanged upside down at Piazzale Loreto in a public display, along with Mussolini, Clara Petacci, the secretary of the Republican Fascist Party, Alessandro Pavolini, Achille Starace and others.[10] Above the body of Bombacci, there was a handwritten sign that read "Supertraditore" (Super-Traitor).[11][12]
Four days after his death, his old friend and comrade Victor Serge read of the event in a newspaper in Mexico, where he was living in exile, and wrote several pages in his journal concerning him. Engaging in what he called "practical psychology", Serge tried to imagine how a former communist could become a fascist: "Among some Italians, particularly among the ex-Marxists and ex-syndicalists, two visions became apparent: that with the liberal democracies exhausted and socialism weakened, the corporatist regimes were going to impose their new formulas; and that through this narrow gate would pass collectivism, the precondition for a socialism different from that desired by the nineteenth century, ... corresponding better to man's basic nature."[13]
See also
References
- ISBN 1-85799-240-7.
- ^ Gilbert, Mark & Nilsson, K. Robert (2010), The A to Z of Modern Italy, Scarecrow Press, Inc., p. 67
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Norling, Erik (2011), Revolutionary Fascism, Lisbon, Portugal: Finis Mundi Press, p. 30
- ^ Petacco, Arrigo (1996), Il comunista in camicia nera: Nicola Bombacci tra Lenin e Mussolini, Milan, p. 115
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Bombacci, Nicola (1941). Il mio pensiero sul bolscevismo. Rome: La Verità.
- ISBN 0-394-71658-2.
- ^ Bosworth, R.J.B (2011), Mussolini, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 511
- OCLC 1120789967.
- ^ Muravchik, Joshua (2002), Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism, New York: Encounter Books, p. 171
- ^ Steve Cole (August 5, 2009). "The Execution of Mussolini".
- ISBN 978-88-6944-292-6.
- ^ Artieri, Giovanni (1981). Mussolini e l'avventura repubblicana (in Italian). A. Mondadori.
- ISBN 978-1-68137-270-9.