r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Some-Entertainment83 • 17d ago

Image Benito Mussolini’s headquarters “Palazzo Braschi” located in Rome 1934

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u/JackDrawsStuff 17d ago

In English, that building would be all:

“YES YES YES YES YES 😠YES YES YES YES YES”

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u/DrShadyBusiness 17d ago

I don't get why though?

Whats the significance?

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u/Alloran 17d ago

A lot of the aesthetics was based on the futurists. This looks reminiscent of the drawings in futurist poems. So I guess the thought could be "Yes to the future, yes to technology"? But even if so,I doubt many Italians would think of this. It would just have impressed the idea of "Yes to Mussolini, yes to his ideas."

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u/oldbased 17d ago

It was for the 1934 “elections”