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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: est1895 on January 07, 2014, 09:14:12 pm
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I'm half Italian and I know a little about Mr. Berlusconi, but I can't figure what he is saying in this video? ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1UII25I1rI&feature=c4-overview&list=UUSkzm8hbFdC0hT4abrrnGXw
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I really desperately want to believe this is part of some long con, a ten year in the making troll....
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2014-1895 = 119, 9/11 never forget
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You can turn on the captions and automatic translating...to still have no real idea what's being said.
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I'm half Italian and I know a little about Mr. Berlusconi, but I can't figure what he is saying in this video? ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1UII25I1rI&feature=c4-overview&list=UUSkzm8hbFdC0hT4abrrnGXw
Probably because it's French with some Italian phrases ?
Background of that sketch seems to be and old interview of Berlusconi with a reporter from The Spectator:
In my biography of Mussolini, published in July, I argue among other things that Il Duce was hugely popular with Italians. Rather mischievously, I had wanted to ask Berlusconi, ‘Why was Mussolini more popular than you?’
The right moment failed to pop up. But Mussolini did: while discussing Iraq, Berlusconi said, ‘I understand the difficulties in teaching democracy to a people who for nearly 40 years have known only dictatorship.’
To which I said, in a jocular way, ‘Like Italy at the fall of fascism.’
He replied, ‘That was a much more benign dictatorship – Mussolini did not murder anyone. Mussolini sent people on holiday to confine them [banishment to small islands such as Ponza and Maddalena which are now exclusive resorts].’
This, though extraordinary, is more or less true. Unlike the Russian communists, the Italian fascists did not use mass murder to retain power. There was no need. You see, Mussolini – until he started losing battles – was very popular.
Source:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-week/diary/11475/diary-83/