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  • "The Puppetmaster" Gelli, a former high-ranking Italian Fascist "Blackshirt" and longtime head of the powerful Vatican-Mafia Masonic Lodge founded in 1895, called "Propaganda Due" or P2.

    LewRockwell.com 2010

  • Washington, wearing black jerseys and swarming more than Nebraska's vaunted "Blackshirt"

    latimes.com - News 2010

  • The famous progressive muckrakers Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell visited Italy and wrote glowing accounts of the Blackshirt regime.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Umberto Eco listed the key points of fascism in his essay, "Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt".

    Ariel Gonzalez: The 'Fascinating Fascism' of Sarah Palin 2010

  • In his essay, Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt, Umberto Eco explains how this style of leadership is an early form of fascism.

    Mexico: A Theocratic Model for Republicans 2009

  • Of the remainder, Unity and Diana betrayed their country, if not their class, by falling in love with Adolf Hitler in the first instance and Sir Oswald Mosley — founder of the British Blackshirt movement (and the nonfiction model for Roderick Spode) — in the second.

    Poison Pen 2006

  • Of the remainder, Unity and Diana betrayed their country, if not their class, by falling in love with Adolf Hitler in the first instance and Sir Oswald Mosley — founder of the British Blackshirt movement (and the nonfiction model for Roderick Spode) — in the second.

    Poison Pen 2006

  • But Huskers fans are discovering it's going to take more than new coach Bo Pelini's discipline to fix the once-feared Blackshirt defense.

    College Football's New Bosses Find Old Problems 2008

  • He slashed the face of William Joyce aka 'Lord Haw Haw' as the latter walked beside Mosley as they led the infamous 1936 anti-Jewish Blackshirt march into Cable Street (Stepney, London).

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Of the remainder, Unity and Diana betrayed their country, if not their class, by falling in love with Adolf Hitler in the first instance and Sir Oswald Mosley — founder of the British Blackshirt movement (and the nonfiction model for Roderick Spode) — in the second.

    Poison Pen 2006

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