“With the beard of Bombacci / we will weave rags / to clean the shoes / of Benito Mussolini”. At the beginning of the Twenties, fascist shock troops sang this refrain. Twenty five years later, on April 25, 1945, the communist ex-deputy, former friend of Lenin and important member of the Comintern – Nicola Bombacci – who had accompanied Mussolini in his escape, was shot at Dongo with several high-ranking fascists. As he fell, he shouted “Viva socialism!” So ended a life that was out of the ordinary. Nicola Bombacci was born in the province of... ›››