Everything was ready: the mafia to appoint the police chief, the army and paratroopers to make the people happy, by hook or by crook, the carabinieri for the reluctant politicians and journalists and even the foresters, who gave a name – or rather, a nickname – to this coup. They were the ones who should have come in trucks in a line through Teulada, Rome, to shut up RAI. The invincible army of authoritarianism had been carefully formed, with great care and precision: everything was supposed to be done in 12 hours,…
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