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TIL about P2, a Masonic Lodge that operated in Italy in the 80's as a clandestine anti-communist criminal organization that planned to take over the Italian government and rewrite the constitution. Its prominent members: Silvio Berlusconi, Prince Victor Emanuel and the heads of the Secret Service

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