The film followed the story of Marcello Clerici, a member of the Italian Fascist secret police who betrayed both himself and his former professor in his pursuit of alleged normalcy. ... When Raoul, Clerici's Fascist secret contact, assigned him the Quadris' murders and passed him a firearm, he ran around playing cops and robbers with the weapon. ... Yet another flashback with Italo revealed Clerici sharing an anecdote that his father had shared with him, about the attraction that a political fool who ended up being Hitler had stirred. The sharing of this story was critical to "T...

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One person or an elite few who share similar views are usually in charge of the state and impose their totalitarian views upon the citizens. ... A form of a secret police force keeps the populace in check and terrified to rebel. ... All totalitarian governments employ a secret police to keep the people of the state under control. ... The secret police of 1984 are known as Thought Police. ... A form of a secret police force keeps the populace under control and terrified to rebel. ...

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Therein lies the secret of absolute power- (Rapoport 1989) Has this method been used by most of the well known bloodiest dictators in history? ... Of the many influential leaders whose dictatorship soaked in blood no only their countries but the world it self, Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini share such ruthlessness and hideous crimes in the annals of history. ...

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Italy established a secret police force in the form of the OVRA, Germany established the Gestapo. ... One element shared by all fascist movements, racialist or not, is the apparent lack of consistent political principle behind the ideology political opportunism in the most basic sense. ...

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Like many European nations, Italy emerged from the First World War as a democracy in distress. Italy was on the winning side, but the war had cost nearly 700,000 Italian lives and over $15 billion. Moreover, Italy had received secret promises of specific territorial gains during the war, only to fin...

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On the night of 17 July 1936, the Spanish army, inspired most of all by General Franco, started the Spanish Civil War by rebelling against the Second Republic. A central goal of the rebels was the destruction of left-wing organisations. Franco's fellow officer, General Queipo de Llano, instructed hi...

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