Essay – How a Charismatic Populist Destroyed Christmas: One Hundred Years Ago, Italian Nationalists Went to War With Their Own Country, Bringing the Border City of Fiume a ‘Christmas of Blood’
By Dominique Kirchner Reill | December 14, 2020 | Zócalo Public Square
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In 1920, in a small town outside Turin, Italy, 17-year-old Luigi De Michelis was everything his middle-class parents could have asked for. Read more