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In 1925, Farinacci became the second most powerful man in the country when
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combat squads in 1919. The
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Vimercate on 28 April 1945. The partisans wanted to shoot him in the back, but at last second he turned and was thus shot in the chest, reportedly shouting "Long live Italy".
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