Blackshirts

The Blackshirts, MVSN or Voluntary Militia for National Security were a Fascist paramilitary group in Italy during the rise and reign of Benito Mussolini. They operated from 1923-1943, having started as the Squadrismo in 1919. The similar SA or Brownshirts was formed in 1921 by the National Socialist German Workers Party better known as the Nazi Party.

Blackshirts Media

Reconstruction of the flag of the Italian Blackshirts, inspired by a video of a co-production of IWC Mediab with other European filmmakers, including Italy Polivideo, Channel 5 and Discovery Europe.
Blackshirts with Benito Mussolini during the March on Rome, 28 October 1922.
Parade of the Blackshirts on Corso Libertà in Bolzano, c. 1930.
Blackshirts on Piazza di Siena [it] in Rome, 1936.
Command of the 73rd Blackshirt Legion in Mirandola, Province of Modena, 1941.
Palace of the Militia [it] in Mirandola, Province of Modena, c. 1930.
Blackshirts seize a railway station of the Ethio-Djibouti Railways in Dire Dawa, May 1936.
Blackshirts during Operation Barbarossa, 1941.
Benito Mussolini as First Honorary Corporal of the MVSN.

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