"If you search for my name on Wikipedia, the first thing they write is that I had a fascist grandfather. Like a scarlet letter, like an irrevocable sentence. I don't know if my grandfather was really a fascist. He certainly wasn't a high-ranking official. He was an army officer. Like many others, after 8 September he sided with what turned out to be the wrong side of history. [...] Dario Fo was also part of the Social Republic. Giorgio Napolitano was a fascist before he was a communist. So was Eugenio Scalfari. So was Gaetano Azzariti, a collaborator of Togliatti, the first communist president of the Constitutional Court, who had been president of the Commission on Race..."
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