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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Italy's Communist Party last week introduced to history one of its heroes: the man who shot Benito Mussolini. The tyrannicide turned out to be a tall (6 ft.), sallow, jowly bookkeeper called Walter Audisio. As he mounted the platform before a Communist mass meeting in the ruins of Rome's Basilica of Constantine, clutching a bunch of red carnations, he bit his lips to keep them from trembling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: What Price Brutus? | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

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