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Blackshirts

Term widely used to describe fascist paramilitary organizations. Originating with Mussolini's fascist Squadristi in the 1920s, it was also applied to the Nazi SS (Schutzstaffel) and to the followers of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists.



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19) These were more dangerous than the extremist squadristi who had, in a sense, provoked the crisis.
This deluded twaddle reminds one of the sillier, psychotic pronouncements of fascist and nazi propagandists; or of the hash-happy student-union squadristi of the Sixties.
 
 
 
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