Today is the 71st anniversary of the Italian Republic. In this

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>tfw Italy could've gone socialist were it not for the US interfering

>>2897616
the land of my ancestors :)

>>2897644

>All those UNESCO heritage sites and untouched European identity not ruined by commie brain washing and hideous grey blocks of shit

Good

>>2897644
>tfw no baffone

Bumperino

Chi è /italia/ qua??

why was Italy so successful after the war and what went wrong after that?

>>2898348
>why was Italy so successful after the war
Substantial foreign aid channeled into a country with newfound freedom of expression and enterprise and where everything had to be rebuilt.
>and what went wrong after that?
Global crisis due to the oil embargo halting the economic boom. A stagnant, effectively single party, political system. Far left and far right terrorism running rampant. Organized crime getting stronger and often colluding with the gov.

Dov'è la Vittoria?
Le porga la chioma
che schiava
di Roma
Iddio la creo

>>2897616
Happy birthday, lads.

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>>2897616
I always wanted to start an Italian American movement here in America

get some of that social justice crap goin for us

Italy should be dissolved

>>2897644
>another country to add to the list of failed socialist shitholes
Oh, what could have been...

>>2898334
Siamo pochi ma buoni

>>2897616
Bring savoyard monarchy back

>>2897659
THIS

My grandma emigrated from Tuscany to the US in 1956. She was about take the Andrea Doria there, but it left before they arrived.