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Originally Posted by washoe
So Berlusconi was a fascist?
Not a commie, right?
Berlusconi was a very center left person, but anticommunist.
His political sponsor for more than 10 years, before he entered politics, was Craxi, the socialist leader (first socialist to become italian prime minister, in 1983).
Many of the people who joined his party in 1994 when he created it were ex-socialists (after Craxi escaped to Tunisia and the party imploded).
He even took in some actual communists, like Sandro Bondi who for years was Berlusconi party actual spokesman
All in all certainly not a person who came from a rightwing history, with a rightwing entourage (unlike Meloni for ex).