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...solve other economic troubles was sharpened by a growing despair over an epidemic of violence. Then came a sudden eruption of new bloodshed. The troubles began over the long Epiphany weekend, when a team of six extremists, presumedly leftwing, pounced on a neighborhood headquarters of the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano (M.S.I.) on Rome's outskirts and assassinated two young people. In rioting that followed, another young M.S.I, member was killed in a clash with carabinieri...
Italy's current political crisis has been exacerbated by a spreading plague of riots, lootings, assassinations, kidnapings and bombings that has thoroughly unnerved Italians and turned the streets of many of their historic cities into battlefields. The death of three young neo-Fascists last week brought to 34 the number of politically motivated killings in Italy since January 1975. The total includes thirteen known or presumed extreme left-wing activists and seven neo-Fascists killed in clashes during demonstrations, in single assassinations and in raids on party offices. The others: five innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire of fierce...
Most of the violence and killing is the work of an assortment of 115 identifiable extremist political movements, splinter groups and urban guerrilla commandos, 94 belonging to the far left and 21 to the neo-Fascist right. Between January and October 1977, ultras of one stripe or another were responsible for 1,693 attacks on people and property, an increase of 40% over the previous year and almost three times the total of 628 in 1975. Italy was also Europe's most explosive society: more than 2,000 terror-connected bombings occurred there last year, almost double the number...
...concern of commentators, some of whom began to draw grim parallels with the violence and political unrest that prevailed in Italy before the Fascist takeover in 1922. "Today, again, we have a determined minority waiting in the wings to exploit the first turbulence in our political, economic or social equilibrium," said Rome University Historian Rosario Romeo. "And if this were to happen, I would not vouch that civil strife could be avoided." However, others pointed out that in 1922 Italy was in a state of political anarchy, while the present government crisis, for all the chaos, is an example...
...however, clarity may not matter, for the film leaves the real world behind and enters the realm of allegory. When the fascists are driven out of Rome, the peasants turn on the fascists of their own town, and then it is the padrone's turn. Passive as ever, De Niro stands before a people's tribunal--under a huge red flag that is miraculously unharmed by the bayonets that hold it up. But if De Niro retained his love for his peasant friend throughout the fascist period, Depardieu cannot overcome his ties to De Niro and he does not permit...