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The World Is Tearing Down Racist Monuments but Not in Italy

SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL

The family of Benito Mussolini wants the city of his birth to protect his tomb. Seriously.

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ROME—The crypt holding the remains of Benito Mussolini in his hometown of Predappio in northern Italy has for years drawn neofascists and other sympathizers who come to pay their ill-guided respects to Italy's father of Fascism. 

And even while images from across the world have shown that old monuments to worse...

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