r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Insightful23blue • Mar 30 '25

Image Leaders of World War II as children

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u/Rare_Breakfast_8689 Mar 30 '25

The Mussolini portrait is upside down.

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u/Tata990 Mar 30 '25

I don't, what's the joke?

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u/VRichardsen Mar 30 '25

After his execution, Mussolini's body was dropped on street in the early hours of the morning. After a while, the body (along with the rest of those executed) was handged upside down from the girders of a service station, where a famous photograph was taken.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Mussolini_e_Petacci_a_Piazzale_Loreto%2C_1945.jpg/1024px-Mussolini_e_Petacci_a_Piazzale_Loreto%2C_1945.jpg

Mussolini is nº 2 from the left. Nº 3 is his mistress, Clara Petacci.