The state syllabus for elementary schools required that the first word to be learnt after mastering the vowels was EIA! the Fascist war cry. Whilst in arithmetic the first lesson taught was that: DEO = DUCE
Paolo Sorcinelli and Daniela Calanca (ed.), Identikit del Novecento: conflitti, trasformazioni sociali, stili di vita, Rome, 2004
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