Italian Public Media
Italian public television RAI bought a copy of the film but for years it was never shown to an Italian audience because it would significantly change the opinion Italians have about their role during World War II - if asked about their country's role, they will remember Italian partisans fighting the Germans, but when asked about atrocities, Italians will only remember Tito's troops hurling Italians into ravines after the war without knowing anything about Italian war crimes against ethnic Slovene civil population, unlike the French who, having deconstructed resistance mythology, are aware of Vichy, too.
After in the 1950s two Italian film-makers were jailed for depicting the Italian invasion of Greece, the Italian public and media were forced into the repression of collective memory, which led to historical amnesia and eventually to historical revisionism.
In 2004 only the Italian private channel La7 has shown large excerpts of "Fascist Legacy". Showings of the documentary were also organized in Italy by groups with an anti-fascist orientation and members of the Slovene minority in Italy.
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