A-Infos (en) Italy, Sicilie Libertaria #453 - Black Crossword (3). Crosswords of the Littorio. (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Prisoners of this macabre pastime, unrepentant, sons of that wretched 
executioner who gives up, they ferry us from the brown shirts to their 
worthy Italian comrades in black shirts, starting with one of their 
boasts, hoping to amaze us by reminding us of a conquest of the Allies, 
in this case Tobruk, which fell into the hands of the Axis on January 
21, 1941 and only served to slow down that stupid world slaughter, 
prolonging it for another four years. ---- Since we Italians are good 
people, especially with short memories, it is quite easy for our 
crossword wise men, now under the threatening aegis of the fascist 
party, to reduce the black dictatorship of the twenty years to a band of 
goliardic friends, united for the good of the country, dedicated to 
making it relive the dream of the Roman Empire and, to immediately set 
us up, they point out their acclaimed guiding light, the classic leader 
who can only be the Duce, and, to better identify him, they ask us about 
a noble Roman family, among many, precisely that of Torlonia, in whose 
villa of the same name their Mussolini lived, to introduce us to the 
black twenty years of the last century, crying, in the meantime, for the 
Venice that no longer exists, meaning the Tridentine one that in October 
1922 was invaded by thousands of fascists to suffocate the liberal 
administration and sweep away any autonomist tendency, considered by 
many historians as a test, before the infamous farce, which cost us too 
much, which was the March on Rome and, unmissable treat, to make us rack 
our brains properly, they submit to us the mystery relating to the 
fascism of the dawn to make us understand that they are referring to the 
antemarch, just mentioned.

For the majority of Italians those years were of poverty and hunger, 
fascists through ignorance and imposition, they paid dearly for the 
delusions of grandeur of a magniloquent buffoon, to be worse off than 
the populations conquered by the dazzling victories of the Axis. 
Autarchy, which replaced the sanctions imposed on Italy for its desire 
for a place in the sun, let us remember, contributed to impoverishing 
the Italians even more. The monolithic government of the bald man passed 
off food and clothing alternatives as if they were conquests, so to 
renew its mendacious glories, we must understand what the raw wool 
fabric of those times was, certainly not a luxury item but simply the 
miserable rough wool, which the jackets of the fascist uniforms were 
made of, which, by extension, indicated the uniform tout court. Worthy 
company was a synthetic fiber of the autarkic period, the famous and 
unfortunate lanital, little more than a cheap rag that had nothing of 
wool, nor of Italian intelligence, therefore nothing to boast about but 
in the economy of questions, the writer of the question is silent about 
all this and we can only pity those who had to wear so many fine 
clothes, as, for propaganda purposes, also did those who were fascist 
authorities, in the century hierarch, also due to the restrictions 
imposed by the sanctions that hit Italy following the invasion of the 
so-called lands in the sun of the empire, reminding us, later, of those 
who strongly supported the campaigns in Africa who, at this point quite 
savvy, we understand were the so-called colonialists, it being 
understood that wars, sanctions and autarchy were always and only paid 
by the people, increasingly incapable of escaping the strangulation of 
the fascist grip.

So, taking us back in time a little, wallowing in the ferocious Savoyard 
colonialism of the Italian tricolor, they would like to convince us how 
great Italy had become, proudly quoting some poor devils, emphasizing 
them, suggesting that they are our colonial soldiers in Eritrea, as if 
we still had colonies and nothing had changed. These are the so-called 
Ascari and, since there is no dictatorship without heroes, the 
crosswordist fasces, in its delirium, to remind us of those lands in the 
sun, where no human lives were spared, with the utmost contempt for 
every ethical and international rule, would like to surprise us by 
asking us about the defender of Adua, a certain Barattieri, sent to 
Ethiopia in 1895 who, in the glorious medal collection of vulgar war 
criminals, as we will see a few lines below, was certainly not alone, 
forgetting, the author of the questions, to explain to us that he had 
gone to invade and kill a people, mostly still armed with bows and 
arrows, spears and war remnants dating back to the First World War and 
who had no other fault than living in a poor place in the sun. So, after 
a healthy lesson in national history about colonialism, to recap it, we 
will have to find the identifying acronym of the so-called Italian 
Empire in Africa immediately decrypted in aoi, which I would translate 
as alas, for us and for those who still today honor and boast of the 
ferocious Italian aggressions in Africa, citing various despicable 
characters of the time, elevated to the rank of heroes,

Continuing in this way, certainly not to test our knowledge of 
geography, they project us onto an unknown Ethiopian plateau that 
corresponds to Ogaden which, shot in this way, could also be found on 
the planet Mars, without even mentioning that that area was annexed to 
Italian Somalia following the war in Ethiopia where extensive use was 
made of a war gas that, as if it were a question of throwing confetti, 
we discover to be the infamous mustard gas, used indiscriminately 
against African soldiers and defenseless civilians to, not satisfied, 
keep us within the perimeter African, also use grammar and ask ourselves 
what the article of Alamein is and, ipso facto, we immediately get to 
the bottom of it: El and those who know the history of that period well, 
know that at El Alamein, on October 23, 1942, Rommel and his 
Italian-German armored army fell into the trap set for them by the 
commander of the British Middle Eastern theater, Auckinleck.

The invincible desert fox, the aforementioned Rommel, left isolated, far 
from possible reinforcements and the necessary supplies, thanks to the 
tactics implemented by the British, had to capitulate. It might seem 
like a contradiction or a misstep that an Axis supporter is reminding us 
of this stinging surrender but it is only a bizarre attempt to pass it 
off as a collective act of heroism by the defeated, victims, according 
to them, of the cowardice of the English who prevailed only because they 
were superior in number, forgetting that Rommel had simply found someone 
smarter than him and started to pay for his sins. To conclude with these 
false heroes and Africa, they will not fail to want to know from us who 
the hero of Macallè was, one who is a match for the already mentioned 
Oreste Barattieri and corresponds to Galliano, Giuseppe by name, famous 
because he resisted the attack of Menelik's army, preponderant as you 
like but a staunch defender of his people and his land against the 
Italian usurper.

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