Nicola Bombacci was a communist and a fascist at the same time

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After Nicola Bombacci was expelled from the Communist Party of Italy in 1927, he gradually began to draw closer to fascism, especially the left wing of the National Fascist Party. First he turned to Dino Grandi, Edmondo Rossoni and Leandro Arpinati, then to Benito Mussolini himself. In April 1936, Mussolini allowed Bombacci to found the magazine La Veritá, subsidized by the Mussolini government's ministry of popular culture, whose headline was reminiscent of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's newspaper Pravda, of which he was a collaborator. Bombacci never denied his communist origins, so much so that in La Veritá in 1936, he confessed his adherence to fascism, but also to communism: “Fascism made a great social revolution. Mussolini and Lenin. Fascist corporatist and Soviet state, Rome and Moscow. We have gone far enough to regret it, we have nothing to apologize for, because both now and in the past we are driven by the same ideal: the triumph of work.” Bombacci addressed the black shirts in Piazza De Ferrari in Genoa on March 15, 1945: “Comrades! Look at my face, comrades! Now you're wondering if I'm the same socialist agitator, founder of the Communist Party and friend of Lenin that I was. Yes, sir, I'm still the same! I have never denied the ideals I fought for and will always fight for. I was at Lenin's side in the bright days of the revolution, I believed that Bolshevism was at the forefront of the workers' triumph, but then I realized the mistake.”
REFERENCES: Erik Norling, Fascismo Revolucionário, Lisboa, Contra Corrente, 2013.