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Originally Posted by swiss
It's illegal? Where? In Italy?
Do you now the history of the symbol?
It actually a Roman sign, called lat. "fasces" which means "bundle".
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Famously the symbol of the facists. The idea apparently being that by binding together some feeble twigs, you can make a handle that will work for an axe.
It is pretty much the italian equivalent of the swastica, arguably more extreme/unambiguous, but outside italy it it's mostly not understood, so it passes with little comment. Especially since Fascist Italy didn't actually participate in the holocaust in quite the numbers that Nazi Germany did.
07-28-2010, 08:34 PM
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