STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2491, sig. 109-12/138

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- 4 - with the generals De Bono and De Vgcchi. Michele Bianchi was the general secretary of the party during these fateful days. But the driving force was the bagf Mussolinis B a 1 b o. He took the red bases in bold strokes of hand in the north and thus covered our backs during the march on Rome. The social democrats, in particular, were very much in the hands of the fascists. The Social Democrats had long since been more active, they sought protection with the police and with the gendarmes against the Fascists and apparently did not even know how much they themselves thereby oscre-dated! The people turned away from them and found imner merr