At exactly 3 PM on 29 April 1945, a yellow truck stops at the "Piazzale Loreto" square in the city of Milan and the truck door opens as soon as it stops. From that truck, 18 corpses are brutally thrown on the stones of the square. In no time, a crowd begins to gather there, when suddenly a woman came out of the crowd and shot five bullets in the head of a corpse saying, "I avenged the death of my five sons." Immediately another woman ripped the crowd and raised her skirt in front of everyone near the same body and sat on her face and urinated.
The body was a victim of hatred and vandalism by Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and his associates in addition to his 25-year-old girlfriend Claretta Petacci. Those were killed by opponents near Lake Como in order to flee north towards the border of Switzerland on April 28, 1945, after losing the war. Claretta Petacchi had two bullets in his chest, while a bullet through Mussolini's eye pierced his head and was ejected. A large hole had formed in his head, due to which some part of his brain was hanging out. According to historians, people had so much hatred against him that he climbed all the eighteen bodies and crushed them. Whoever comes will hit a hard on his head. In the end, all the bodies were tied up in the ankle and hung upside down, so that Claretta Petacchi's skirt turned to hang on the side of her head, she did not wear any cloth inside.
People's hatred of fascism can be gauged from the fact that during this incident a fascist soldier who was present in the crowd proceeded to give the last fascist salute to his leader and soon after giving a vigorous salute, the mob caught him and a man shot a bullet in his back. At the beginning of the Second World War Mussolini had said, "Shoot me if I retreat from the battlefield." In fact, Mussolini said this sentence, but he would not want to do it at all. That’s why after losing the war, he was caught by the rebels while run off with his beloved and shot accordingly.
Even though Hitler's name appears first in the order of the cruelty of the dictators of history, Mussolini's dominance in fascism was very high. One could not imagine that a boy born on July 29, 1883, who was expelled from school during school days for stabbing his own classmate would become such a big fascist leader, and his misery would be like this.
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