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TIL that after being killed by Partisans, Mussolini was dumped in Piazzale Loreto, where in 1944 he had 15 partisans murdered and publicly displayed. His corpse was kicked, pissed on, and shot at by the Italian crowd, and he was hung upside-down with a meathook along with other Fascists.

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