The Borderland Where Fascism Learned to Rule
Italian Fascists honed their ideology in Venezia Giulia, fusing anti-Slavic racism with anti-communist repression.

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Jože Srebrnič was a People’s Hero of socialist Yugoslavia, but he’d never been a citizen of that country. He was born in 1884 as a subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and headed to the Eastern Front in 1914 under its colors. He soon surrendered to tsarist Russia, though by the time he’d left again it […]