olinto bongi I remember when the Duce came …

Ah, you remember?

Yes, the first time I remember Mussolini he had boots on and there was the anvil. He was with the elder Agnelli, Senator Agnelli … And I remember when he came again and there was the fiasco because the workers had started to open their eyes when the Mirafiori [car plant] was inaugurated. Mirafiori, yes … yes, yes, he came, but the workers gave him a moral slap in the face which he deserved … Eh, and often indifference makes you pay more dearly than a slap in the face.

And Mussolini came to visit …

maria conti cafasso Mussolini visited Turin and … Mirafiori, when they opened Mirafiori. First he came to Lingotto, I was on the fifth floor, they brought … they made a huge anvil … and they gave him the hammer and he became an engineering worker … And what poses he struck! And they made us come down from the fifth floor to … find Mussolini there, when you were meant to clap, but nobody clapped! Right there, there was something that I felt was already marked, this thing, which in some demonstrations they spoke about, it was a let-down, and he couldn't stand Turin, why? […]