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03 August 2020 Rome will not have a museum on fascism for the capital. "Rome is an anti-fascist city, no misunderstanding about it," says the mayor of the capital. 

Barely enough time has elapsed to provoke the first outraged reactions of the Anpi that the mayor of Rome, Virginia Raggi has 'stopped' in the bud the motion also signed by her colleague M5s, Gemma Guerini as well as by the pentastellato directors Massimo Simonelli and Andrea Coia . It does not matter that the idea of ​​the museum was in an anti-fascist key with the aim of contrasting denial and ignorance, a sort of pole of attraction for schoolchildren, onlookers and tourists to be created in an industrial archeology site that was inspired to analogous cultural operations of critical analysis of the Nazi period.

The danger of fueling neo-fascist regurgitations, according to the provincial ANPI of Rome, would have been too high. The association of partisans has indeed expressed the strongest opposition to the approval of such a motion and invited the proposers to withdraw it. "We are alarmed - writes the Anpi -: a museum on the crimes of fascism, on the example of what was done in Germany, is not explicitly foreseen, but simply on fascism. Imagine those who can't wait to be able to demonstrate that fascism has done also good things. The motion also refers to both Nazism and the Cold War and we get to mention the museum in Hungary and in Budapest, obscenely, it shares Nazis and communists. " All this, concludes the Association of Partisans, "is planned for a museum that will be built and managed by the next Capitoline council, on whose anti-fascist values ​​we can foresee today, when in our country we are no longer ashamed to mention Mussolini and where the Fascism is even expressed by forming parties that explicitly refer to it and which are slow to be dissolved ". 

The tension, never dormant, had re-emerged in the city in recent days after the news of the theft in the Central Archive of the State, in the Eur of 970 Labari who accompanied the March on Rome on 28 October 1922.